Performance Shot's

The weather is brightening up meaning that hopefully later on in the week we will be able to film our narrative shots without getting blown away, but in the mean time we have decided to make use of our times and today we filmed our performance shots.

When choosing our 'indie band' we was extremely lucky, as we are friends with an already formed indie band, who regularly gig and even have an established EP out. This made the whole filming aspect really easy for me, Rian and Jack for many reasons. One of the main reasons was they was natural in front of the camera, the lads are used to being filmed and photograph as they do so on a regular basis so they wasn't shy in playing up to the camera and done exactly what we asked of them. Another aspect which was easier for us was the styling aspect of the video, we had an idea of what outfits we wanted the band to wear and when we shown them they made it work for us. That was so much easier that our AS Level piece of coursework which involved buying and borrowing clothes, this year the band themselves where already prepared.

We filmed the band on the school stage and I think we deserve a pat on the back for making a school stage not look like a school stage, as this was a big scare of ours. As we was trying to create shots which usually are on big stages in big arena's, in a school hall with a capacity of 200 it was defiantly difficult but I think we pulled it off. One of the main thing's which I believe helped a lot in making the stage look as professional as possible was the grey backdrop, it was an actual stage curtain and when we uploaded the footage onto the computer it gave a really indie affect and really completes the shots. Another aspect of filming on stage I liked was the speakers at the front of the stage, something I have seen in all professional gig ventures and when asked our lead singer Dean was happy to climb on them to bring attention to the professional features.

An aspect of the video which was important to us was the saxophone solo, we wanted to make it as spontaneous as possible, bringing as much emphasis to this section of the video as possible and our friend John fitted the role perfectly.  We styled him in complete contrast to the rest of the band and he played the role exactly how we wanted.