R+P Post 29: Rehearsals

Olamide practicing lip-syncing for her performance as Layla Ade

Olamide had practice beforehand for the music video shoot, lip syncing the lyrics of the song 'Blue Lights' for the music video and rehearsing for her characterisation of the character Layla Ade. As a group, we also had a technical rehearsal in the Seward Studio learning how to operate all our technology with our media technician Emma, who showed us how to change the lighting and camera set up. This helped us to know exactly how we were going to shoot for our test shoot and the type of lighting we needed. It also gave us time to question how we were going to be able to set up our strobe lights and projection for the shoot. Of course we all had prior experience at filming in the studio, but this technical rehearsal and explanation from Emma was more of a personal experience, for we could ask questions about our own performance and have a brief rehearsal on how we were going to shoot the music video. I feel this experience was especially valuable for giving us that knowledge we needed for shooting our performance.