Wednesday, 16 May 2012

We finally have a band

Yesterday, we were told that we needed to get our act together. We had been searching for a band for a long while and still had no results. This called for drastic action. We walked over to the music block hoping for a miracle. We approached the head of the music department to ask her if she new of any bands that would be up to the task. To our great delight, she said that she knew of a band that were very talented and would be up to the heroic task. The next day we met up with "Post" to discuss what they wanted to see in the video. They didn't have preference. So it was down to the mighty team of Doug, Scott, Holly and Daniel to come up with the goods. They said that they rehearse on fridays at 10:30am till 12:30pm. On the friday morning we collected our equipment and set off in the direction of the music studio. When we got there, there were only two of the band members present. This gave us a lot of time to set up and make sure everything was working at optimum quality. Once all the band members were present, we started shooting. I was directing the video, it was my job to tell scott (the camera man) which angles to shoot at. It was holly's to set up th equipment, and do a safety check of the room. Once holly had deemed the area to be safe, we were ready to film. The first shot that we filmed was of the band walking into the room and getting set up. We filmed this from two angles so that we could cut between them during the editing process. The next shot was a close up of the lead singer plugging in his guitar amp. After this we filmed the band performing the whole song three times and filmed it from three different angles. We had some good shots but we got the band to perform the song once more so that we could take some cut away shots of feet tapping, interesting angles etc. These small shots will be perfect for making the final video look more interesting.

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