JB - Brighton Reccie Evaluation

On tuesday the 22nd September the A2 media studies class went on a reccie trip to Brighton. This was to enhance our ideas, and hopefully develop more discussions throughout our group on locations, outside of tunbridge wells and the places we live. The trip proved to be a very helpful day, and we couldn's have asked for better weather. We took our video equiptment, and explored different types of camera shots and movement, at different locations in Brighton.

Jack, Mitch and I found it very helpful using the equiptment again and familarising ourselves before we head out on our production of our music video. We paracticed a number of different shots including; Panning establishment MLS, Close Up shots, POV shots, Tracking, and 360 degree pans. This enabled us to realise which sort of shots become more obvious for the type of track and genre we have chosen. Considering we are working on the track 'Everybody in Love-JLS' this is a boy band video, and we found that certain shots such as the tracking shot with first person mode of address work better than others for example the POV shots.

The location of Brighton was actually surprisingly useful to us. There was some beautiful scenic shots that were possible when the weather was right, and that is evident in our reccie shots. What we found though was that although a boy band video could indeed be located on something such as Brighton Beach, it was not right for the feel of the boy band that we would like to convey to the audience. JLS are a more urban boy band, as oppose to bands such as Take That.