The Strangers

On Wednesday (9/11) a band called The Strangers came into our school to play a gig. Beforehand they allowed us Media students, in small groups, to practice our filming of a performance by shooting them as they rehearsed their gig line up. This gave all of us I think, further insight to how to shoot a performance and the problems that can occur along the way.

I was assigned as the Director of my group and so I had to make sure everyone knew what camera they were working and the types of shots they were expected to take. Due to the late arrival of the band we had only one chance to shoot our footage. With the plans we had put together before the filming session we were quietly confident that we could do a good job, however the stage was at a slightly different angle to what we originally had thought and so suddenly framing became difficult from the angles we had positioned our cameras. With one shot and a small timeframe though, we simply had to make the best of the situation.

At the moment we have not begun editing, however it is at this stage that we will see just how well our plans pulled through. I will blog again on this issue after seeing our footage.

In the mean time this is the tune and original video of the song we filmed, called If I Found Love

Storyboards and the like are absent due to the small amount of planning time we had for this project.