Second day of Filming

After filming for the first time to our new song i was optimistic that it would go better than previously. We arrived and we were instantly handed the task of getting the hall decorated to the way we wanted. This was far more time consuming than we had thought it would be and it took an hour and a half to fully set up, which was far to long. After setting up we then had a problem of what shot to do and how to do it. Once again we hadn't learnt from our previous mistake. However we had got some filming done which we will upload to final cut and edit it to see exactly what we can do with original filming. Once again we failed to use our planning to help us film and i will address the group about this along with our overall effort to get the job done as i feel this is holding us back from getting our music video done. Overall this filming session wasn't as productive as i hoped it would be but we got enough work done to help us build upon which should leave us in good stead for our next day of filming on Saturday.

Animatic of Music Video

This is the animatic of our music video. This is basically a video that i made on behalf of the group that showed when we would use the shots with the song and it also shows where we would use our transitions. This is only a rough plan and i would expect us to use more shots than we planned and more transitions. I think that the animatic will be different from our final video as editing still images means you can't see the instruments being played but this is only a representation of what we want the video to look a little bit like.

Storyboard Images

These are some of the images we drew to help us plan what kind of shots we wanted to do whilst we were filming.

Pre-filming blog

After a change of song we decided to re-think some of our original ideas and look at new angles and new shots that were now available to us through a change of idea. We had moved away from the concept of doing a story-based video to the idea of video a live band. We had immediately brainstormed some ideas that we thought were very promising and we were all eager to get filming. We started to talk about where we should film. Our initial idea was to film in a garage where our selected band normally practice. This would look authentic to a 'band practice' session which we could be representing. However group member Jacob said he could get hold of a scout hall and excellent lighting which was a great opportunity we couldn't turn down. So on Sunday 30th January we were going to film for the second time. We had an early problem when the bassist was miss-informed about the time of our filming which was down to our poor communication with him. The problem was resolved when already had someone else available to play the bass which was a nice piece of planning on our behalf. We estimate we will have around 3 hours in which to film so we should get enough done to start editing next week.