Kill It Kid Evaluation

The Kill It Kid Production, I feel, has gone reasonably well. We haven't had that many technical glitches, apart from the problems we had with sound which I think shows our ability to adapt to a change in the capabilities of a project. The pre-production all happened within a short space of time but I feel like we were definitely properly prepared when we went to shoot. We knew the bands music and had done a rece of the venue which personally really helped me have clear ideas of how the piece should look before the day of the shoot.

The only aspect of pre-production I think we let ourselves down on was the sound preparation. None of us really knew much when it came to sound design/recording so we kind of just left it to the on site technician and kept our fingers crossed it would be alright. We should of taken more of a hands on approach to making sure it would be alright before the day of the shoot even arrived. A trial run would have been perfect for this. Trying to fix the problem on the night was impossible as the technicians put priority on worrying about the live sound and not our recording, which is kind of fair enough since it was their jobs.

Everything apart from this ran smoothly on the night and I think we got some really nice footage.

When we realised in post production that we weren't going to be able to use the audio, our producer, Keiran Jones, emailed the band manager asking for permission to use one of their tracks, 'Pray On Me' which he agreed to. This turned the product into a promotional introduction to the band inspired by BBC Newsbeats's 'Introducing...' series. I liked the idea of using the footage to create a kind of profile of the band and give a taster of their music.

I'm pretty pleased with how we adapted the project but I would have preferred to have been successful with the live music idea. I thought the original brief served to better promote Komedia as well as Kill It Kid, where as the video only really promotes Kill It Kid as there is more of a focus on the track then the whole Komedia experience. The 'mutually beneficial' aspect of the original idea is something I would definitely like to work on if I was ever to work on a similar project at Komedia.