We started the day by letting the band rehearse a few times whilst we set the lights and worked out where they would stand we then got the band members in to position them and make any adjustments to the set if we had to as we had hot bulbs and sharp bits of perspex hanging from the ceiling so we had to make sure everyone was safe. The first shot we did was an establishing wide shot to get all of the band members in also it helped us to see what the lights looked like on the monitor as it will look different on the monitor to what we could see with the naked eye.
The mirrors were only hung by a piece of string so they kept spinning round this meant we had to constantly adjust them and try to hide as much of the camera behind curtains as we didn't want it to be seen in the reflections, the spinning mirrors really were what we wanted as we wanted to create a distorted effect and use different reflections of the band. For some of the shots we held the mirrors out of shot for example we did a box of mirrors round the lead singers head we used a laser pen to make sure all the mirrors were positioned properly but it created a really good effect. One down side of the mirrors is we had to constantly watch out of reflections and the mirrors were only one sided so in order to keep good continuity we were constantly twisting them and repositioning them to their original place, the band members had to constantly keep playing also otherwise we may catch a glimpse of them just standing in in one of the spinning mirrors.
In pre production we decided we wanted to shoot each of the shoots individually but on the day it became apparent that this would take to long and be hard to replicate the effect we wanted in after effects, so we decided to shoot the band by panning the camera and focus pulling to different parts of the band and doing close ups of instruments and singers all one take, this created a really rock music effect as the jumpy camera work and quick movements almost makes it look like it was filmed live at a festival, the use of dry Ice in terms of mise en scene also added to the dark rock feel of the video as it associated with grave yards Michael Jackson thriller video.
The second part of the shoot consisted of the dancers for this we had to slightly re-arrange our set moving some of the mirrors back and putting them higher as we didn't want the dancers to get injured in the filming process. We gave the dancers time to rehearse and familiarize them selves with the track, we then got them to perform it and we tried to work out the best position for the first shoots for the camera as the used the entire studio space , we then began to do close up shots of their faces and body parts we decided to shoot this in a similar way to how we shot the band with moving the camera around and focusing on different points when we were filming, we also tried to reflect of the mirrors in the same way we did with the band, we then went onto use the Ginni lift for some high angle shots of the dancers, we then had a costume change and they then did the dance again. We then filmed specific bits of the dance we liked like the kiss and the lifts. Also we used a tissue to smudge Sophie's make up in order to make it look as if she was crying.
Our shoot overall went smoothly and better than expected with other groups saying how stressful theirs were I think the pre-production planning really helped us to have a smooth and well structured shoot. It also helped that our band members could play the song on their instruments and they new the lyrics, especially the drums as it held the song together as the playback of the track wasn't as loud as we had hoped, the heavy black curtains muffled the sound which we had not anticipated.
The mirrors were only hung by a piece of string so they kept spinning round this meant we had to constantly adjust them and try to hide as much of the camera behind curtains as we didn't want it to be seen in the reflections, the spinning mirrors really were what we wanted as we wanted to create a distorted effect and use different reflections of the band. For some of the shots we held the mirrors out of shot for example we did a box of mirrors round the lead singers head we used a laser pen to make sure all the mirrors were positioned properly but it created a really good effect. One down side of the mirrors is we had to constantly watch out of reflections and the mirrors were only one sided so in order to keep good continuity we were constantly twisting them and repositioning them to their original place, the band members had to constantly keep playing also otherwise we may catch a glimpse of them just standing in in one of the spinning mirrors.
In pre production we decided we wanted to shoot each of the shoots individually but on the day it became apparent that this would take to long and be hard to replicate the effect we wanted in after effects, so we decided to shoot the band by panning the camera and focus pulling to different parts of the band and doing close ups of instruments and singers all one take, this created a really rock music effect as the jumpy camera work and quick movements almost makes it look like it was filmed live at a festival, the use of dry Ice in terms of mise en scene also added to the dark rock feel of the video as it associated with grave yards Michael Jackson thriller video.
The second part of the shoot consisted of the dancers for this we had to slightly re-arrange our set moving some of the mirrors back and putting them higher as we didn't want the dancers to get injured in the filming process. We gave the dancers time to rehearse and familiarize them selves with the track, we then got them to perform it and we tried to work out the best position for the first shoots for the camera as the used the entire studio space , we then began to do close up shots of their faces and body parts we decided to shoot this in a similar way to how we shot the band with moving the camera around and focusing on different points when we were filming, we also tried to reflect of the mirrors in the same way we did with the band, we then went onto use the Ginni lift for some high angle shots of the dancers, we then had a costume change and they then did the dance again. We then filmed specific bits of the dance we liked like the kiss and the lifts. Also we used a tissue to smudge Sophie's make up in order to make it look as if she was crying.
Our shoot overall went smoothly and better than expected with other groups saying how stressful theirs were I think the pre-production planning really helped us to have a smooth and well structured shoot. It also helped that our band members could play the song on their instruments and they new the lyrics, especially the drums as it held the song together as the playback of the track wasn't as loud as we had hoped, the heavy black curtains muffled the sound which we had not anticipated.
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