Planning
Diary
Sunday 24th
September
I created a Facebook group chat and asked the band if they
could meet at Rayleigh Mega-Centre at 15:00 for a rehearsal. When we were all
there we started by setting up all the equipment. This included drums, bass and
guitar. Once everything was set up we decided to play along to the song three
times to make sure we were all familiar with the song. At first the speakers were
not loud enough to play the backing track over the band. We contacted the staff
and they brought up some more powerful speakers that can play the backing track
louder than the band.
We decided to play over the backing track because it will
make the lip-synching look more natural and make it easier to put the footage
of Olly singing over the backing track.
Today was the first day of shooting band footage for the
music video. I created a group chat on Facebook Messenger explaining the date +
time I was planning to start filming. We met up at Rayleigh Mega-Centre Music
Room and set up all out equipment. To make the lip-synching look more realistic
we played along with the song numerous times as practice. At first, we had
trouble playing the backing track loud enough in the studio so we had to
contact staff to change the speakers to more powerful ones that are capable of
being louder than the band.
Sunday 1st October
Today we met up again to film the rest of the band footage. Some shots had to be re-filmed and some extra angles of the band needed to be filmed. Some of the shots contained laughing and some of the shots people got in the way. Therefore to make the footage look professional, I decided to re-film some of the footage to remove these mistakes as they would contradict the theme of the music video. This would also disrupt the narrative as laughing contradicts depression and loneliness, so to not contradict the theme of the song, I had to change it.
By the end of this session, I finished filming all of the band material so I was ready to start editing the band footage ready for starting the narrative. I had to cut down a lot of the band footage because we recorded the whole song from a bunch of different angles which means I recorded a lot more footage than I actually needed to use.
Sunday 1st October
Today we met up again to film the rest of the band footage. Some shots had to be re-filmed and some extra angles of the band needed to be filmed. Some of the shots contained laughing and some of the shots people got in the way. Therefore to make the footage look professional, I decided to re-film some of the footage to remove these mistakes as they would contradict the theme of the music video. This would also disrupt the narrative as laughing contradicts depression and loneliness, so to not contradict the theme of the song, I had to change it.
By the end of this session, I finished filming all of the band material so I was ready to start editing the band footage ready for starting the narrative. I had to cut down a lot of the band footage because we recorded the whole song from a bunch of different angles which means I recorded a lot more footage than I actually needed to use.
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