On 20th December, we filmed the performance parts of our music video. We used one solitary location, which was the TV Studio. We had a black curtain backdrop and manually selected which of the lights above we were going to use. The reason we selected this location was to create an authentic looking studio for the band to perform in.
We used suitable props borrowed from the music department including a drum kit, two amps and a microphone with a stand (We couldn't get a full drum kit and had to improvise). The two guitarists brought their own Guitars for the video.
The band members came in their own clothes as we were going for a "Casual" costume design and wanted to make it seem more natural like an actual band practice would be. Because one of the initial band members was unable to show up, we had to replace him with someone else in our group.
For the most part, the filming went quite well. The lead singer got most of the lip synching down after listening to the song to a few times and him and the other guitarist managed to make their miming of the song look believable.
We managed to get a large amount of close-up shots of the Lead Singer which is typical of band performance based music videos. We also managed to get plenty of shots of the instruments being played along with the music which should match the song's sound.
However, there are some clips we couldn't use for a variety of reasons. Some because the lights were too bright and over-exposed the band members. Other clips we couldn't use because the visuals of the instruments being played didn't match the sound of them being played (Guitars/Drums being played too fast.) Also, the amount of different shots are quite limited. There aren't many long shots in comparison to the Close up/Medium shots and every attempt at a panning shot failed due to either the camera shaking too much or not looking like it's panning at all.
Overall the filming shoot was successful though.
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