Showing posts with label The Strangers - Practice Task. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Strangers - Practice Task. Show all posts
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Notes on filming of the Strangers performance
Problems encountered -
- Absent and late crew members
- Late change of staging position
- Only three SD cards (we had planned for more)
- Different song version
- Framing and lighting was difficult because of spatial restrictions
- Inadequate training for certain members on use of cameras
- No direction of choreography which meant cameras had to move with the performers, which proved difficult
Strengths -
- Choice of high and low angles
- Multiple members on cameras
- Organisation beforehand of crew members was assured
As you can see the problems we encountered outweighed the strengths of our filming. Perhaps what allowed us to battle around the problems was our organisation. We were ready to go in the small allotted amount of time that we had and so got enough shots that we were able to produce a half decent video. Unfortunately one of our camera 'crew members', the one we had on the floor, mistakenly pressed the record button twice and so failed to capture any footage, however our filming from above meant we were lucky enough to get away with it. Our camera nearest the band had a little trouble framing due to the late change in staging however again our organisation meant we had time enough to sort this. Further to this, once we got the footage back to the editing suite, we realised that the band had played a slightly different version to the recorded song we have to put the footage to. Fortunately our editors have managed to work around this and we have produced a worthy video.
Of course all of the trials and tribulations we experienced here, as well as the successes, will help to ensure we experience maximum success when it comes to producing our actual project.
- Absent and late crew members
- Late change of staging position
- Only three SD cards (we had planned for more)
- Different song version
- Framing and lighting was difficult because of spatial restrictions
- Inadequate training for certain members on use of cameras
- No direction of choreography which meant cameras had to move with the performers, which proved difficult
Strengths -
- Choice of high and low angles
- Multiple members on cameras
- Organisation beforehand of crew members was assured
As you can see the problems we encountered outweighed the strengths of our filming. Perhaps what allowed us to battle around the problems was our organisation. We were ready to go in the small allotted amount of time that we had and so got enough shots that we were able to produce a half decent video. Unfortunately one of our camera 'crew members', the one we had on the floor, mistakenly pressed the record button twice and so failed to capture any footage, however our filming from above meant we were lucky enough to get away with it. Our camera nearest the band had a little trouble framing due to the late change in staging however again our organisation meant we had time enough to sort this. Further to this, once we got the footage back to the editing suite, we realised that the band had played a slightly different version to the recorded song we have to put the footage to. Fortunately our editors have managed to work around this and we have produced a worthy video.
Of course all of the trials and tribulations we experienced here, as well as the successes, will help to ensure we experience maximum success when it comes to producing our actual project.
Friday, 11 November 2011
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
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.
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