Band performance taster

Today we edited the main band sequence to coordinate with the music. We used several close ups of each member performing, and then a medium long shot of them all together. We need to do more beat editing to  go with the pace of the song.  

 

Intro of our music video

Here is the intro to our music video. We are really happy that we have got the first part of our video done as we are finally getting somewhere. It's good because it fits directly with the intro and finishes just before the vocals come in.   

Siobhan Drake & Safina Frankson

Filming is over!

On sunday we filmed the last of our music video. This was the second time we had to shoot so we could finish the band performing and getting close up shots of them. Also we needed to re-shoot the part where heather cries as the lighting was too dark, and the part where she rips down the tribute wall.

We've just finished importing the rest of our footage and have about 28 minutes of it. As we shot the band performing the song individually, the amount of footage we have has shot up.

We worried a lot about the filming as the guitarist was 40 minutes late for filming. This was problematic as we didn't know when he was going to turn up and there was a chance that we would have had to film again if he didn't. If this had of happened, it wouldn't of been fair to ask the band to bring all their equipment for just a couple of shots.


Safina & Siobhan :)  

Film Notice

This is the notice we used whilst filming on the park last week. It explains why we needed to film and to notify members of the general public that we'd be using the park for a bit.


Safina & Siobhan :)

Website design

Today we've been working on our website. We made background on Photoshop of the lyrics of A Graceful Descent's song- No Remorse repeated over and over. We are now planning to create logo with the band's name cut into an arm. Arms will be a repetitive theme on our website, using them for the titles and sub-titles.
This is our early attempt of our final website.

Safina and Siobhan :)

Weather report for Sunday 21st November

We are planning to re-shoot this coming Sunday, even though what we need to shoot is all inside- the garage performance and some of Heather's tribute wall scenes, the camera will need to be outside for the garage part so that we can see the whole of the band performing together.
The forecast is white cloud which is relatively similar to what we had when filming last Sunday so we should be able to work with this type of weather. This forecast is from the BBC website.

Safina and Siobhan :)

Review of Sunday 14th November's shoot

We had our first film on Sunday 14th November. It went relatively well and we got quite a lot filmed- most of the story line anyway. However, we did have some difficulties.  We did want each member of the band- apart from the lead singer to sing a line of the breakdown. ("I'M GOING DOWN, YOU'RE COMING WITH ME.") However, none of them were too confident to do it so we had to change it so the lead singer sung it instead.
We then filmed Heather, the stalker girl in the bedroom with the tribute wall. But looking back at the footage we think we may have to re-shoot some of the scenes. The one where she runs into the room and rips down the posters off the wall is not done as aggressively as we would like and our extreme close-up of her crying is too dark.
Once we got round to filming the performance aspect of the video we found it was too dark to see the band properly in the garage so we are needing to re-shoot on Sunday to do this as long as we can get hold of the equipment.

This is a short clip of what we filmed of Heather in the bedroom. It isn't fully edited yet but it is on here to give a feel of how our video is coming along and to show the few shots that we will need to re-shoot at the weekend.

Safina and Siobhan :)