Main Task - Production - Shoot 1 (Performance)

After the difficulties ranging a date which the whole band and our group could make, we finally settled on (luckily) a sunny day in September. Unfortunately only I could make the day to be able to shoot however, we managed to grab another pair of hands to be in control of the second camera. 

We were extremely lucky with the weather being so nice since the whole feel of the music video would have been off. If it had been raining our upbeat song 'Wasting Time' would have seemed like somewhat of a tragedy. Firstly, we began filming in the band's practise area in the drummer's back garden. In order to give the space a more 'exciting' feel we added bright coloured back drops, one in particular which had a lot of blues, yellow and greens to hopefully match with the whole video since we aimed to make sure that the video contained lively colours in order to reflect the song perfectly. After we had filmed a few set ups following our 1 hour in practise studio and 1 hour in woods schedule, we went onto the woods. Overall, shooting in the practise area went rather smoothly, the only real problem lay in the fact that the space was quite small and so I was unable to capture any wide/mid shots. However, this was mostly fine since really the most important shots were the ones of the lead singer which worked out well. What we struggled with the most was fitting the whole drum kit in shot, which proved impossible even if we were outside the window looking in.

After our first hour spent in the practise 'cabin' we walked across the road, with instruments and camera kits in hand, until we found a nice spot in the woods which display the right the amount of light. Initially, we set up in a nice clearing in the woods however, after doing a few test shots I realised the it was too light and the shots would come out over-exposed. In the end we found a nice spot and continued to shoot. Overall, the shoot went rather smoothy with only a few people walking past us with their dogs with confused faces. 

Looking back, we were very lucky to have had such good weather and a very co-operative band to work with. They even brought along their own bluetooth speakers to play the song over and over (and over) with. The only problem with this is that signal and particularly wifi is not great in the middle of a forest and so it would decide to cut out half way through the song. Also, the speakers were not that loud and so we had to come up with the solution of putting the speaker in one of the jars we had for decoration in order for it to bounce of the glass sides and sound louder. This did work surprisingly well.