When we were deciding the location for our video shoot, we knew that we would require power. The reason we needed this was because we needed something loud enough for play back of the song so that the band could play along to it and be able to hear it so that they could sync there parts to the song. Me and Gareth also needed this so that we could sync up the instruments to the song after filming. We discovered that the best option would be to film in the school staff car park, there is an isolated location up there which is a common convention of band performance sequences in music videos, and also a power source close to it. We took up two 5 metre extension leads up to the car park and plugged them in to the power source in the maths block. I took up a Box powered speaker with a mini mixer to plug my MP3 player in to so that the band could hear it, there was never going to be any issues with the band not hearing the music over the top of what they were playing because the speaker was very powerful. One issue that could have caught us out was the fact that the drum kit would be very loud, we managed to tackle this by placing mesh heads on the drum kit and pads under the cymbals to cancel out most of the sound made by the drums. These noise cancelling aids were not really visible during filming so we did not think it affected the realism of the drums.
We decided that there was no need to take guitar amps up to the shoot as not all music have them in, but to add realism we decided to plug a lead into both the guitar and the bass, we decided however not to plug a lead into the microphone as it would just get in the way of the performers moving around.
Through experience of being in a music video before I thought it would be a good idea to use the same technique of filming as the person who filmed my bands music video did and that was to film certain parts at a time. I filmed the whole song with the camera static aiming to the centre of the band to pick up everyone, then I placed the camera to the side of the band, It was quite a sunny day so we felt that it was visually a very good shot to have. I then went on to film each band member individually, doing two takes of each, one for the overall shot of the player and then one of insert shots such as the guitar neck to show elements of finger tapping.
I used the camera on the tripod for nearly the whole band shoot but then decided for the breakdown part of the song and the heavy last part that I would take the camera off the tripod and get in the action with the band with the camera in my hand.
A few days after the shoot we started to edit the performance sequence together to make a rough draft of the video. Me and Gareth had previously decided that we would film the narrative parts to the video at a later date and add them in afterwards.
INSERT ROUGH DRAFT
After feeling happy about the band sequence we then began filming the narrative parts, we had to film all the shots in one night as everyone had a very busy schedule around that time. I wanted to get a real authenticity to the performance of Georgia and Gareth so I said to them lets just go out and ill try and get the shots that I require by giving you instructions of how to act at certain times. I decided that some good shots to get would be of the couple walking along to the road together being happy and then shots later on of them walking away from each other and arguing. There was also shots of them sitting on a bench together messing around, and then later on some shots of them arguing on the bench. I also wanted some home movie shots, so I gave the camera to each of them and just gave the instruction to play about and look like your really happy and jokey with each other, although this was quite a difficult thing to achieve as the camera was very jumpy in certain shots.
An idea that I had early in the planning stage was to at the start of the video have a picture of Gareth and Georgia together looking happy and the photo being on the floor, and then also the photo at the end of the video, still on the floor but torn up and dirty to give the indication that the arguments and break ups have taken there toll on the relationship.
The program we used to edit all of our video footage was iMovie for Apple Macs, we found that this program was very easy to use as we had a lot of previous experience using the software. There were a few technical hitches along the way though, one example of this is when you try and place a piece of footage in front or behind another when the video bar is full, certain clips jump around into places that they should'nt be and so the whole video will get thrown out of sync.
Once we had started to edit the narrative parts in with the rough video that contained the performance sequence, we realised that it would have been quicker to edit if we had filmed both and then edited them together at the same time. This was not a massive problem for us, just a bit more time consuming and a lot of watching back the video to make sure that the video had not been thrown out of sync when we had moved things.
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