Production- Day of Filming

The group met at 9:00am around Kerrin's  house. This enabled us to make sure we had everything we needed and fine tune some of the more sketchy details of the plan.
The Equipment- 5x HD cameras
- 4x tripods
- 1x audio kit
- 8x production schedules
- Lyric sheet with timings
- 2x Ipods with the track on
- 1x Ipod speakers


When we arrived at the warehouse in Hertfordshire where we would be filming I rang Stephen to make sure that everyone was on their way to the shoot, which they were, Allen the Drummer arrived first in a van carrying his drum kit then Stephen, Mark and Allen W all arrived in their car.


At around  12 the band started to set up their instruments this was a lengthy process, but it gave us a chance to explore what shots were feasible and what shots weren't, after a short respite and after telling the band the ideas we had of shots and positioning, we began the shoot at roughly 13:20
I started off by filming Stephen on the stairs with the camera zoomed in to focus on his guitar and then slowly zooming the shot out, then walking down towards the performance area. I then filmed Mark utilizing the same technique but this time instead of using the stairs to the left of where the band performed Mark was positioned at the stairs at the back, again the first shot of this take was of his guitar and then zooming out. The third take was Allen W walking through the side of the warehouse out towards the large doors. The last introductory take was of Allen the drummer obviously at his drums again as with the guitars we started zoomed in on the drum kit and then slowly zooming out.

Now that the introductory shots had been completed we all set about filming the main piece which was a performance by the band, all members of the Crew (Helen; kindly helped us film our behind the scenes footage, Me, Paige, Kerrin, Emily) took a camera each and Emily and I oversaw the setting up of the cameras to ensure, 1 that my job editing would be easier by not having to go and retake shots that wouldn't work, and 2 because Emily was Director she knew the type of shots that the band wanted as well. I set up a High Angle Shot from the right as your facing the band this was placed up in the walkway by main offices, and another camera in the canteen area facing the band from the left hand side also a High Angle Shot, Emily set up the other 2 cameras and Helen was still filming the behind the scenes footage.

Throughout the shoot we utilized close ups, long shots, mid shots, low angle shots, high angle shots and some zoom shots.

Filming lasted around 2 and a half hours to 3 hours, we also managed to establish some promotional stills courtesy of Paige and Emily. 

My roles and activities.

My role in the production was cameraman as I had been cameraman and director for the AS module of filming I was reasonably confident of accomplishing the sort of shots that were envisioned by the band and Kerrin/Emily. The day of shooting went well with many different types of shots being used and after a lot of recording and re-recording I managed to get the shots that Kerrin and Emily, as well as the band, wanted but also shots that I knew could be edited together to form a music video that would follow a good definable and interesting structure.