5th Day of Filming - Should be finished soon!!

5th Day of Filming

(the band performance scene)

Today was our 5th day of filming and on this occasion we did not go to London to film as it was the band scene. We filmed the band performance at the drama room located in Robert Clack school. We first had to obtain permission from the head of the department before filming and using the props and instruments. The facilities were adequate and we where able to also experiment with various different types of lighting. We began by first organising ourselves in positions that our cameramen Alex, George and Collins though looked best on the camera. This wasn't a lengthy process because they all agreed about the formation of the band in which they had our lead singer Tomas in front of all of the rest of the band which included myself, Dapo, Aaron and Connor. After we where placed into our positions, we then had to pick adequate lighting that looked good on the camera and this proved to be relatively difficult for Collins as he had never used the lighting machine before and it took him a while to get used to it because there where many buttons controlling 'primary masters' lights and also 'secondary' lights. Once he figured out how to maneuver the lights we could then proceed to the performance. We so happened to find ska hats in the back cupboard which was so surprising and almost felt like our destiny to use them so we put them on and got out the instruments to use. We had 2 bass guitars, 2 electronic guitars and a keyboard. We had to be extremely careful as the instruments are very expensive. We filmed the band performance several times despite the fact that the instruments where very heavy because we needed to ensure that we had enough angles and shots to use when editing. The more footage you have, the more of a selection you have when editing. We eventually finished after about an hour and a half. It was very productive day as we now have just about all the tools allowing us to have a top quality music video we just need to go out one more time to London and film a few scenes and hopefully the grade that we are all chasing will be given to us.