Evaluation of the shooting day

Yesterday we finally had our shooting day, and in this blog, I will write how was it.
The day before that, we went to the studio to set everything up. We looked at all elements of the 3 elements and decided that the third one is the most complicated in the building, comparing to others. That's why we started with that one as we had more time that day rather than on actual shooting day. For that element, we hanged a white curtain to the ceiling and put a white blanket on the floor. On that day we also checked all our costumes and talked once more with our cast about what do we expect from them.
When I woke up on the next day, I felt quite confident as we were all set up and ready. We started to shoot almost straightaway because the set was ready and actors came at the time. Before the shoot, we just needed to put on Tia nude make-up and the right costume.
We started shooting with the third element when Tia was inside white curtains. Everything looked very good, how we were expecting it. We did close-up and wide shots of her alone. For this element, my role was to play playback. Then we asked our male actor Max to join her in the curtains. At first, our actors were shy, and we even thought that the element won't work. However, after a few tries, we got several very nice shots that we could definitely later use. For this element, we also did one close-up and one wide shot.
Then we moved on to the first element which is a white background and red couch. Our background was infinity roll which worked perfectly. The couch was also how we were expecting it - in Victorian style. Our artist Tia also changed to a white dress, beige high-hills and put red lipstick on. We also gave her jewellery we wanted her to wear and changed it for all elements as in our research we saw that almost all pop artists have jewellery on. Here, for all poses she had, we shot three type of shots: wide, mid, close. We also did some modelling shots like her dancing or just laying on the couch. In this element, I tried myself as a cameraman and I think I coped well with my job. This element went very smooth and we got very nice shots.
The second set for that element was red background and white couch. The red infinity roll was very nice in colour and we made a final choice for the dress according to it. However, the couch that we had had a hole that didn't look good on the camera. To solve that problem we find a white material and covered one part of a couch with it. Otherwise, everything worked very well and we also shot for each poses three shots: wide, mid and close and then did some model shots. In this scene, I also was a cameraman for many shots as I enjoyed shooting it and it worked for whole my group.

The last element was the dancers surrounded by light bulbs. We left the red infinity roll from the previous element and added light bulbs by hanging them from the ceiling. The dancers were rehearsing dances for all this time so they were pretty ready by the time we needed them. For this element, I was a director so I was just supervising the whole process and giving commands to dancers and the cameraman. This element was harder to shoot as dancers were moving a lot and the red background was not very wide. So we needed to make sure that the borders are not seen in the shot. We shooted three dances for each chorus. For each dance, we also made shots of different width. When we finished with the dancers, we also took some shots of light bulbs.
Overall, our shooting day went quite well and everything went how we were expecting it to go. All the issues we had was easy to solve and it just made that day even more interesting.