Recap on our filming session

On Saturday (5th of January, 2007), we started to film for our production. We started of at about 1.30PM in Seal Church Hall. The setting was chosen because it had a stage, was local and was reasonably small, but big enough to fit people in.
We started by setting up all the guitars, drum kits and lighting and then we briefed the band on what shots we would like and handed out the shot lists. We also set up the camera's and made sure that they were ready to film.

We started off by filming the band playing on their own with no audience. This is so that we could get the majority of the performance shots completed in fairly quick amount of time. We decided to film the whole song throught about 10 times. We had long shots where we could see the whole band playing, medium close up's of each band member playing and then also experimented with different angles and finishing with close up of the lead singer, Jake, with an emphasis on him singing the song so we could lip sync it.

After we had done all the band performances we had planned to do audience shots, however, due to lack of timing we couldn't get the desired number of members to be in an audience and although we filmed some sections with the few we had, we are going to need to plan another filming session with more awareness so we can get more people to come.

Overall we are quite happy with our performance shots. We may try to add a few more shots, to see if we can add anything extra to what we already have. As we have shot early it gives us plenty of time to re-do parts and also to edit to make the final piece look good.