Filming Day 1 - December 20th

Filming Day 1 - Performance Scene

Today we filmed the performance scene for our music video, Me, Kyle, Jess and Danny all met around about 10:00am at the front reception including our actors/performers Ben and Fraser. Signed in and ready we headed to the studio to check the room, also making sure that it was suitable for filming.

First of all we needed to set up the studio with the appropriate props and lighting. The studio we were in had a separate room were someone had controls of the lights in the room, and also included a headset in which we could communicate to each other between the studio and the room. The equipment we had to obtain from the music department was a drum kit, amp and a microphone with a stand that we carried to the studio, as for the guitars our performers brought their own.

After all the equipment was in the studio and everything was moved to appropriate locations we began adjusting and testing the lighting to make sure it wasn't too bright or wasn't well lit in the studio. Once that was sorted we filmed the performance with two cameras and the song with the lyrics on a computer screen so that our lead singer Ben can read them.

As for the order of the filming we started filming from the beginning of the song but in different takes as our performers weren't confident at first and needed to warm up and get used to the song. We also used the shooting schedule as a plan for some of the shots we needed. Later when they were more confident we started filming the song in one take but we would change the positions of the camera around the performers to get a shot of each band member at a different angle, allowing us to have a variety of shots which would make it easier to edit and include more jump cuts.

The shooting went well, we included a variety of shots such as close-ups, medium shots, long shots and pans, although the majority of them were close-up shots of the band members. Overall after hours of shooting I feel that we have enough clips for our video and it was a successful day of filming.