First Day of Filming & Meet The Band!

Today we started filming the band shots for our video in our school's drama room. Our group consisted of Abi, Ebun, Dafe, Jordan and I with some help from Celina. We had to make sure today was free and not booked out like yesterday so everything could run smooth. We used the drama lights as oppose to natural light to give our band shots a more professional look. Here's some pictures from today.

Meet the Band!

Taju

Jordan

Dafe

Here I was powdered in order stop the light from reflecting off of my forehead so much and allow myself to be seen more clearly by the camera.

Also all of us in  the band wore the same outfit to make us look like a real band and not some Media Studies students. It my own idea to go with the sunglasses, white shirt, black tie and black trousers look, as I felt that it suited the genre of the music.

Moreoever, we included all the shots stated in our shot list plus some extras as we felt we needed more for the music video to be more exciting. During filming, the dolly wasn't working too well with the tripod so we had to do plenty of free hand shots as steadily as we could, although they weren't the best, hopefully we can make up for it during editing. Also durin one of the takes I got way too excited and the microphone ended up falling apart ruining what would have been a great take. Luckily however we got through most of the song doing this. Anyway here's us in action!

Furthermore, the instruments we used included an electric guitar, bass guitar and drum-kit. Although we had to ditch the electric guitar because we had no guitar strap for it so it kept on slipping from my grip during the take which wasn't helpful. When we got rid of it and just had me as the vocalist of the band the shots improved drastically as this gave me the freedom I needed to put on a good performance. In addition, we almost got into heaps of trouble for using the drum-kit without having a real drummer in our band because Dafe was making so much noise and not drumming on beat.

Generally I'm pleased with the band shots as we were able to get in a range of shots and really utilise our work space for some really good shots. However, we didn't manage as many close-ups of Dafe on the drums as we wanted and we also had a lot of shaky shots which decreased the professionalism by some bit. Also the lighting was good however we could have used white lights to make the film look better.