Filming Band Performance

Today was the first day I filmed a band performance. I arranged everything and told the members of the band to meet me in a drama room after school. I had a study period last so I had time to arrange a stage and set up lights and all the music instruments that I need in the correct place. Just before the band arrived I did some test shots using the cameras to check if the lighting looks good on the camera and it did on one of the cameras which was my own personal DSLR camera ( Nikon D3300 ) and the other two cameras were the ones I borrowed from school and they were Canon D1200. I didn't like the quality of the Canon cameras so I decided to use just my one but just shoot everything a lot of times so I have a lot of different angles.

After I went home and watched the footage I realised that I don't have enough footage because most of the footage is the whole band and there were not many variety of angles. Also the lead singer was covering the drummer almost the whole time.

I wanted it to be perfect so I scheduled another date with the band to re-shoot.

Re-Shooting Band Performance

Today I re-shot the whole band performance. Again I had to make a stage using blocks from drama and there was two drama students that were very polite and thought me how to use the drama lights so i didn't need studio lights. I tried to use a steady camera as I have never used one before and it took me a while to figure out how to set up the camera properly and then how to use it, once I did we started filming. We filmed the whole song about 7 times. Each time I used a different method of filming for example couple of the times I used the steady camera and other times I used a tripod.

Over all everything went really well so I need to start editing the footage together.

Plan for Filming during half term- 18th and 19th of Febuary

Thursday the 18th and Friday the 19th of February 2016 

On these two days we are going to go in London and film for the whole two days. We are going to meet at 10 o'clock both mornings and we would finish filming about 5 o'clock both evenings. I am planing on shooting in couple of different locations such as Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, Southbank bridge and maybe Southbank skater park. I already have some footage of Jasmine in the tube. However, I need to film a little bit more there with the singer- Michael and the actress- Jasmine.

Costumes:
Michael- black jeans, black vans, T-shirt, beanie hat, hoodie and a vans backpack
Jasmine- Heeled boots, high waisted black jeans, roll neck top, and a coat.

We are going to film as much as we can on these two days so I can have most of the footage that I would need.

Weather: I checked the weather forecast for these two days and It said that the weather will be quite sunny but cold so It would be good for cinematography and lighting should also be good.

Filming with Joel

When we went out to film I asked the main/lead singer to lip sink for the video. We all met at 10 o'clock and filmed until 5 o'clock. I didn't manage to film a lot due to the poor lip sinking. The actor- Joel wasn't every good at it and was too shy to actually sing so the lip sinking is successful. We tried our best and when I started to try and edit the footage onto the song, it looked fake due to the poor mouth openings when singing. I decided to go through some of the footage that i filmed of the tube trains and the girl. That was very successful and I am going to use it. However, I am going to find a new actor and my target is someone who is good at music and feels comfortable singing in public. A music student who volunteered to be in the music video seemed very appropriate due to his clothing style as well as lip sinking. Then I made the decision to use this student- Michael in my music video.