Filming Day

Saturday 15th January

The group met at 9:30am around my house. This gave us roughly an hour to make sure we had everything we needed;
- 5x HD cameras
- 4x tripods
- 1x audio kit
- 8x production schedules
- Lyric sheet with timings
- 2x Ipods with the track on
- 1x Ipod speakers

At 10:30am we left the house and picked up Helen, who came to help us film.
We arrived on location at 11:45am and five minutes later, Jamie rang Steve to inform him we were at the factory. At midday, the band arrived and began to set up their instuments as we set up the cameras.

After a short break and after telling the band the ideas we had of shots and positioning, we began the first take at roughly 1:15pm.
We started off by filming steve on the stairs walking down towards the performance area. We then filmed Mark doing the same thing, but using a different set of stairs. The third take was Alan W walking through the middle of the waerhouse. In the next take we filming Alan T sitting at his drums.

After all the individual takes, we began to film the band performance.
We started off by camera 1 recording a long shot (high angle) of the band, camera 2 filming a second high angle shot and camera 3 filming a long distance front shot of the band.
The second take used camera 1 filming a long shot side angle (left), camera 2 filming a long shot side angle (right) and camera 2 filming mid-long shot (front).
On the third run through, we switched the cameras around again to record a variety of shots. Camera 1 filming a close up of Steve, camera 2 filming a close up of Mark, camera 3 filming a close up of Alan W and camera 4 filming a close up of Alan T at the drums (back).
By the fourth take we still had plenty of shots to film, so we used camera 1 to film a mid-close up of the back of Alan T, camera 2 filmed long shot side angle (high) of the band, camera 3 filmed mid long shot of the band performance and camera 4 filmed a long shot (high angle) tracking shot of the band.
The final take used all of the four cameras. Camera 1 filmed mid-closeup (low angle) of Steve, camera 2 filmed mid-closeup (low angle) of Mark, camera 3 filmed mid-closeup (low angle) of Alan W and camera 4 was hand held by Emily to give more of a movement active shot of the band. Half way through this take we moved camera 1 to film a long shot (from behind) of the band performing.

The whole of the filming took roughly 2 and a half - 3 hours and most of this time, a camera manned by Helen, was filming the backstage footage.
After filming, we also took some promotional stills of the band which could later be used as possibe pictures for the album cover, poster or DVD sleeve - Promotional stills were also taken throughout the day of the music video.