Fifth Day of Filming

Yesterday we undertook our fifth day of filming once again it was at the Red Lion Pub in Gravesend. I felt this time we were more prepared as we had the plan sheets to use so we could make sure we got the shots we wanted and i felt that we succeeded in this. With me, Tom and Jacob filming the same band as last time i felt we had got all the remaining shots we needed which only leaves the editing to do to complete our video. Although we completed filming later than i had hoped we have still got a few weeks before our deadline to get our editing and ancillary tasks complete. Here are some of the pictures Tom took during filming.

The picture above is a shot of me filming a side shot of the band playing.

This is a picture of the band performing and its the same angle where we had taken some shots on the video camera.

This is a picture of group member Jacob filming our drummer Matt for the opening sequence.

The is a picture of when we first arrived and i was telling our drummer what we wanted him to do.

This is an over shoulder shot of our drummer during filming.

Plan Sheets

The sheets below are plan sheets i made prior to our fifth attempt of filming. Although we had several good shots and some good footage and i felt that last time we filmed we forgot some shots. There are three sheets of planning and they are colour coded so that we know who needs to be in the shot. I have planned shots for the whole song and they may change upon my other group members feeling a different shot would be more suitable. Although this is only a rough plan sheet i feel it will give us a better base to build upon whilst filming so we don't forget to film anything and we can start to edit our final cut.

Plans for our background

As half our group had started to edit our video footage I began thinking about photos we could take for our album cover. As i was listening to the song i heard 'I'm a one way motorway' and this is when i thought that perhaps a motorway as our background would look good. Jacob then suggested that only having one lane of the motorway would be better. This was my favourite idea for an album cover and one we could quite easily use. We will obviously have to go to a bridge to take this photo and at a late time to get the exact picture we want.

Fourth Day of Filming

Yesterday we filmed for the fourth time in our third location. We used the red lion pub again which offered us good lighting last time we were on set. We knew that this time we were going to film more handheld shots which we immediately did. The first to film was group member Alex who was getting up close and personal with the band. At first this seemed like a good idea as we were able to direct around the group getting the shots we wanted. However upon looking at our footage on the computers we discovered that by filming as we went along we didn't film in order of the song. We instantly had the time consuming problem of having to pull clips of our video from all over the timeline on final cut. This wasn't our biggest problem however because we had lots of footage to edit for our final video but my main concern upon seeing the footage for the first time today is that we have missed out some parts of the song and there are times where there is some back room clutter ruining the shot. Although we have these problems i feel we have enough footage to start editing and building a base for further footage to come. With only three of us in the lesson to see the footage we have all agreed that we wold have to go back this weekend to get some more footage to improve on what we already have.

Video Mood Board

These are some shots from live performances that i thought were pretty good and would consider using in my music video.

Album Cover Mood Board

This is my mood board of album covers I like.

Editing Practice

The snapshots below are some shots of me practicing editing of Final Cut, the software we plan to use. These snapshots are taken from clips of our third day of filming and many of them contain effects that are available on Final Cut. Some of these shots are effects I like but won't use because they wouldn't suit our music video.