finally got our footage

We just filmed the final footage that we needed for our video.

This was the footage of the people running to get to the gig.

We had had a lot of trouble finding people that would run for us so it has taken a lot longer to film than we expected.

Now we have this footage we are uploading it and going to intertwine this into the rest of our footage.

We had previously left a few gaps in our video for the runners to go so we are going to see what footage fits best with the rest of our video.

Now we have all of our footage we are going to focus on editing all of the time and getting it all together.


We may need to film another shot of Steve but we think we can get around this.

editing

We replaced the piece of lipsyncing that was out of time with a panning shot from the back of the drum kit to behind the band; then we had a short shot of Steve lipsyncing that we could use.

Lipsyncing is turning out to be a bit of a problem in this. Our singer, did not sing perfectly in time throughout the recording so we are going to have to be selective with what shots of Steve, the vocalist we used.

We feel we have enough footage to use and will not need to reshoot any of the performance.

This is limiting us in the editing as it is hard to find good vocal clips.

Luckily, due to the variety of angles, shots and our narrative this should not be too much of a problem and we will be able to overcome this.

Le'questionne le Rough Cut

(FEEDBACK AND QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ROUGH CUT)

1) What do you think of the lip syncing?

- Was okay but slightly out of sync in places


2) Is the order/variety of shots okay?

- Yes, it was interesting, in particular how we cut from performance to the narrative

3) Is the cinematography any good?

- Yes, especially the shot of the drummer from below
- The contrast between the bright performance stage to the darkness of the bedroom

4) Is the overall effect any good?

- Yes because it keeps the audience interested due to the variety of shots
- Could be improved by addition of stage lighting/added effects




OUR COMMENTS

- It was commented that we didn't have to lighten the shots of Emily because the contrast was good, but we are still going to lighten them a little bit because we feel that they are a bit too dark and sometimes too difficult to see.

- We have taken out the main lip syncing piece because it was too out of sync and we are going to replace it with another shot.

- We are considering adding effects, but are going to put the whole thing together first and seeing if we have time to add anything and see if it looks any good.

ROUGH CUTTTTTTTT.....sort of !

Risk Assessment

Before we start filming we had to do a risk assessment. Here is a copy of what we wrote....

Hall

Hazards: Falling of the stage,
lighting and sound equipment falling on stage,
band members in close proximity with instruments,
assembley of drum kit,

What could cause harm?: If lighting or sound fell onto a cast member,
band members could unintentionally cause injury to themselves or another member whilst acting with instruments,
drum kit difficult to assemble and some parts heavy so could be dropped,

What is the likelihood of this happening?: Falling off the stage; Quite probable, especially for the camera people.
Lighting and sound equipment; Not very likely, but very bad if it happens.
Band members in close proximity; Quite likely because band members are jumping around with guitars.
Drum kit; Very likely as drum kit is heavy and had to be fetched from a room full of drum kits that could fall on us.

Who or what would be harmed?: The equipment[instruments and stage equipment], cast and crew.

How much harm?: There is a minimal risk of harm as the damage done to person wont be very great. The only one that would cause really bad harm is if lighting or sound equipment fell on anyone.

How will the risk be managed?: If any of the risks happen we would make sure everyone is okay, check the equipment, and then just carry on, trying to reduce what ever caused the risk.



Stairway


Hazard: Falling down stairs

What could cause Harm? People tripping over each other/stairs, pushing each other

What is likelihood of this happening? Likely for someone to get pushed or tripped up as there are lots of people all running in same direction

Who or what would be harmed? The cast

How much harm? Not a lot of harm should be done as we will tell everyone to be very careful, but if someone seriously falls or trips, there could be some harm done.

How will this risk be managed? If someone does trip or fall we will check they are okay, if small damage has been done, we would carry on and make sure everyone is more careful, if there is alot of damage we will stop and re-think the idea.


Cambridge streets

Hazard: People tripping up,
knocking into the public,
damaging property,
film private property/people in public

What could cause Harm? People all running together could trip over each other,
could run into members of the public,
run into someones property,
if people do not wish to be filmed/their property filmed they could get anoyed.

What is likelihood of this happening? People tripping; not so likely as we will be in more open space with less people for each shot.
Members of public; not very likely to run into members of public/film them we are going to find places were not a lot of people are, but if someone does get in shot, we will check it is okay to use footage.

Who or what would be harmed? Cast members or public

How much harm? Not a lot of harm can be caused.

How will this risk be managed? If anything happens we will re-assess the idea, and if it is okay to carry on we will, or if not we will re-locate.

and we're off!

Today is the day of filming!

We have a guitar and a bass guitar and we're all set

We will be setting up the drum kit in about half an hour and Emily is going to pick up a microphone from the music department.

We will also be filming the shots of Emily in her room.

We did plan to film the runners today as well but we're not sure the weather will hold out for us to do that...

WHAT WE NEED ON TUESDAY!

INSTRUMENTS
guitar - vicki or becky.
bass - vicki
drum kit - college
microphone - vicki [maybe] if not borrow one from college

CAMERA AND TRIPOD - college is providing

Change of plan!

It is Friday, we have the band, the hall, the runners but have a shortage of instruments.

Instead of filming today we have had an urgent group meeting, including cast, to decide when we can shoot the footage. We have decided to film the band on Tuesday, and then do half the runners today, and half next week.
{EDIT: We are filming both the runners and the band on Tuesday}

We have re-booked the hall for Tuesday, and have found a way to get the instruments here ready for use. This plan seems to work better for us because it will give us more time to shoot, as we could only book the hall today for the afternoon, but will have longer on Tuesday.

Test Footage!