Film Session - 'Performance'

A week later (29th January) after discussing what were going to use in terms of performance, we were going to film. We decided to change our idea of filming inside Lewis' house and instead decide to film inside his garden where I thought it would give more of an outstanding effect to the lighting as well as the smoke from the smoke machine in the darkness. We also had the help from some of Lewis' friends who volunteered to take part in our music video such as the performance. So we waited for an hour whilst setting up the performance in terms of positioning the instruments, lighting and the smoke machine. We also identified where we could capture different shots within the video.
Then we had a major drawback being that it had started to rain which meant we couldn't film outside as the equipment would have been ruined. So we went back inside trying to think of a solution. We were determined to get the filming done today so decided that we should go back to our initial plan of filming inside Lewis' house. This way it wouldn't postpone any progress we were making in the development of our music video.
So we tried to replicate the layout of the setup outside inside Lewis' living room. Eventually we were ready to start filming. We all got dressed up in Morphsuits which has an example of one in a previous post. This should add to the anonymous theme of the band. I felt that this helped contribute to the bands anonymous nature and add to the convention of an electronic music video being vibrant colours. Morph suits add vibrant colours to the shot which is also a convention of an Electronic music video coding for fun and excitement as well as mysterious. We decided to assign each person in the performance a role of an instrument and then swap them at different stages of the footage with the same camera shot so when we edit it looks like each member of the band are swapping stations. I felt this added to the theme of repetitiveness. We also gathered panning shots of the performance capturing it in motion which I added continuity and fluency of the footage. After 2 hours of filming capturing around one and a half hours of footage we called it a day and decided that we would start the editing process of the music video on Monday back at school. Overall I felt that this was the best footage we had gathered as we could introduce a variety of shots and had tonnes of footage to play with allowing quirky edits to be heavily involved (a convenion of an electronic music video).