FILMING: BAND PERFORMANCE SCENES

On the 19th of November, I and my group were able to fill the first major scene that would be featured in our music video. We decided to use our school gymnasium as it is very large giving us plenty of space to film as well as use lighting and props.

We were able to use our friend Huw Carey as our drummer whilst Elliot and I played guitar and bass/vocals respectively. Ellie was on the main cameras and we also borrowed Huw's GoPro camera for the shoot so we had someone experienced to help us with filming and positioning. Ellie used two cameras to gain a variety of shots and experiment with different angles and lighting combinations to try and get the most professional looking shots we could.

This was the basic setup for the instruments and the cameras. We had one that would shoot face on and a second that would shoot low and at angles. The drum-kit took center stage and me and Elliot stood at either side to distribute the screen time as evenly as possible.

Unbeknownst to us we had access to a smoke machine which our teacher was able to get for us. We used this to add depth to our lighting when filming to create some very dark and creative shots. The fact that we could utilize the large gymnasium meant the smoke dissipated evenly and quickly so we were not completely hidden in smoke while on camera.

This is me striking a pose in conjunction with the smoke machine, we had not used the lights at this point so as to try and preserve the bulbs, but we were able to get a sense of how the camera would react to the sue of smoke and how we would appear. As you can see the effect gives an edge to what might have otherwise been a bland photo.

Here we are utilizing the GoPro to get closeup shots of us playing our instruments. We decided to film the scenes with the GoPro first as it was one of the easiest shots to set up.
Huw simply held the camera in place and we adjusted the angle to get different shots. We did not fix it to the instruments as we did not have the clamp attachment for the camera and holding it in place allowed us to move the camera freely and try different positions on the instruments to see which yielded the best result.










This was the Camera we used to film the front facing shots. Its a Canon 100 and we used it primarily to film the front facing shots as it was attached to a higher tripod and had a better zoom capacity than Ellie's camera which we used for closer, low angle shots.
We used the canon to film our entrance to the music video, the three band members playing all at once and towards the end used to to film panning, close ups of the individual band members.



Overall, the shoot went extremely well, and although we were time pressured due to a late start because of the lack of availability of the school gym until 4pm, we got a lot of brilliant work done. The shots we have taken will provide us with near a minutes worth of screen time for our music video. We will review what we have filmed on Thursday 20th November and begin to start editing the shots so that they are ready to be incorporated in the music video when new scenes are filmed.