Film Diary: Fourth day of filming

Today consisted of us filming all the visuals in the studio for the performance elements of the video. We hired a studio in a local city as we thought this would look most professional and slick for the music video.We organised transport for all of us much in advance, which meant we could focus on what we were going to do when we were in the studio. We also had to make sure we had all the codes to the main entrance and individual studio. We learnt from previous experiences and went into the shoot with a set shot list of what we wanted to film. This helped us a lot as we managed to get all the shots done and get extra shits to fill the gaps. We decided to film the song in individual shots that we had planned at the start, and then we went through most of the song in one take, getting as much footage as we could. We tried to get a varied set of shots to make it as interesting to watch as possible. We experimented with high angle and low angle shots and long and short shots etc. We had made the decision to have a drummer in the video, and this really paid off as it allowed us to get a wider range of shots. As our drummer knew the song, it will look so much better as it looks as if we have a proper band. We got a lot of shots of the drums, as this will make our video be a level above a lot of the other videos.

At the end of the session I took some photos for my digipak and digipak poster. I decided to get the photos with the instruments in as this is a big part of my bands identity. I took some of the lead singer individually, the drummer individually and both of them together. When looking back at the photos i took, I have realised that some of them are out of focus,. To rectify this I am going to take some more.

In hindsight we could have got a few more shots to fill in some of the gaps just in case. Although we tried to do this, we started to run out of time at the end. Furthermore, we had some trouble at the start linking the phone to the speakers so we could play the song out loud. This cut into our allocated time a bit and we could have planned that beforehand. Overall we thought it went very well, and our planning and practice allowed us to get some good footage.

Below I have attached some photos of us doing the filming.