14th November Setting up Equipment

In this band performance filming session we booked out many different pieces of equipment to be able to achieve the best possible shots in the time frame we had. The equipment we used was staging (provided by the location), the crane, the dolly, three redheads, smoke machine, tripod and two LED lights. It was a massive operation to get everything to Byker but it was worth it! Furthermore, we also used many different instruments to make our band look professional, such as: a drum kit, microphone and stand, keyboard and guitar.

The staging that was provided by the location was great addition to the music video as we could deliberately pick out certain members of the band to used the convention of the lead singer being shown to be the most important member of the band and the drummer being the highest point (visual) in the band, which can be shown using levels. We built the stage up with a formation of:

Drummer

(Jamie)

                  Guitarist                                                                  Keyboard

                   (Matty)                                                                      (Bill)

Lead Singer

(Lewis)

However, we also had to set up many different technological equipment. The crane that we used came in handy to achieve big master shots of the band to show the location and lighting off. But also the crane help us to be able to film close up shots of the different members of the band and adding movement to them. In addition the crane was good to film static master shots of the band as well. In this film session we also brought three red heads and LED lights. The red heads were used to highlight the band and change colour of the room. On the other hand, we used the LED lights to highlight certain members in the band, in two-shots we shot. In this filming session, we also used a smoke machine. This was a privilege to be able to use this as it really made the image of the band being mysterious and dark, as it looked like they were appearing from the smoke. One of the other pieces of equipment we used was the dolly. In this filming session we used the dolly to create slow pan in the master shots of the band. As the surface in the warehouse we used was very bumpy so we had to place the dolly on some staging so we could get clean shots instead or jerky.