Filming - Performance 2/2

The second time round of filming the performance went really well. After reviewing the shots we had done last time we knew exactly what we were doing with the lighting, actions and setting. This meant we could go straight in to filming which is what we did. After reviewing the shots, Tom and I saw that we needed more camera movement in our shots so we planned out shots to fix this. The first shot we did was another shot from outside the garage but making sure the garage was semitrical and obvious it was actually a garage. Also we added all the lighting this time as we learnt that we needed all the lighting possible. This wasn't a problem as as the band was setting up, Patrick, Tom and I were setting up the camera angles. After this shot we went on tho the movement shots. For this we had Patrick walking across the front of his garage following a semi circle we had marked out. By doing this we got the movement in and lots of angels our our band. After a couple of takes of this, we decided to move on to getting lost of high angles of the band. We first did a take of Patrick climbing on a ladder and filming at a high angle in the corner of his garage. We did this to block out some of the shadows as we were having some problems with that the last filming. Also by using the high angle, it makes our band look smaller and less significant which is the image that we were trying to get across. After last filming session, we learnt we needed as much time as possible so we arrived early this time. This then allowed Patrick Tom and I to look threw the shots mid way threw the filming session and see if we had missed anything significant. By looking threw them we had realised that we didnt have enough shots of Tom and Rob together, or Gareth and Rob together. We then went about ways of trying to find a way to get them together in a shot without moving anything around. The only way we figured we could do this was if we used partricks step ladder to get a high angle shot of them as when we tried a standing shot, you could only see the guitarist and not the drummer. To get this looking good we had to move some of the lighting around so that Rob (drummer) wasn't completely black and you could actually see his face. Once we had done all the bad shots, we knew that we had to move on to solo shots and filler shots. We first got shots of the guitarists close up on the strings and then from down the neck of the guitar. This allowed us to get both of the guitarists hands in the shot playing the actual notes of the song and it looked really good when we adjusted the lighting to make it look low key. After the close ups we got mid shots of the guitarists from high angles and low angles to give us a bit of variaty in our final production. When we moved on to the drummer we had research drum solo's on youtube and looked at the camera angles that were used whilst they were playing. The most common one was a high angle from the corner of room. Doing this was tricky due to the limited amount of space we had in the corner of the room. Despite the limited space we actually got good shots of Rob drumming, however on those shots you can't see the full drum kit but fortunately for us he doesn't need that part of the kit during the solo he performs. Tom then came up with a great shot which he had seen been used in the 'Skyway Avenue' video by 'We the kings'. This was the one where tom zooms in and out of Rob playing the drums but mainly clapping the hi hat. This was another low angle shot that we got with great movement. We realised that we would be using the 'We the kings' video for a lot of inspiration for our performance so we researched it and analysised it heavily before going out to film the second time round, and it payed off. The final bits we had to film was the filler shots. Of this we basically got people tapping their feet, band members looking around, jumping and playing their instuments. One of the shots we got which looked really good was the one of Rob tapping his bass drum with the camera side on. Although we didn't film for long we knew this was going to be a great shot to add somewhere in our final production.