More pictures from Saturday

Other bits and bobs from Saturdays filming session

While we did the bouncer footage, we also felt it would be a good idea to have some footage of a bottle of lager being dropped/smashed because it helps tell us what is going on in the video.

However the footage we shot isn't great, so I will film this again, using a Nikon 1 camera which has a slow motion setting. This would make our shot of this better rather than slowing the footage right down like we originally did, because it came of blurry when the footage was allowed down.

More Editing

Following on from our narrative filming on Saturday morning. We came into college to put the footage on the timeline.

All the footage we shot has come out pretty well, we have edited the bouncer footage cross cutting between a close up of him to Calum performing the song. 

Filming the Bouncer

It's a Saturday morning and i'm just waiting for the goons to turn up, then we can meet Nathan (Bouncer) at the Masons Arms in Waterfoot, then we begin filming. (8:26am).

With the narrative shots now finished (we hope), we feel optimistic that the finished product will be a success. We feel the bouncer scene was a success as everything came together nicely. We filmed Nathan basically shouting at Calum outside a pub and then throw a punch. We filmed this using over the shoulder shot of Calum looking at the bouncer. We also filmed a point of view shot of Calum being punched.

Album covers (update)

With our two album cover drafts being a rather unsuccessful, Cameron has tried to do a better job. The initial idea was to have mug shots of the four of us. 

However the albums covers don't represent our ideas. Cameron picture especially is more of a mid shot rather than the close up which we ideally need.

While Cameron is working hard at improving our drafts, he was added colour to them rather than the dull black and white colour they originally had. He also made them look animatic which looks better.

Editing

With our music video coming together nicely, Cameron has been doing a great job at editing it and putting narrative shots in the appropreate places. The editing software we have used in this process is Adobe Premier Pro. While editing our music video on this programme we have used several different editing techniques such as;different dissolves. We have made our video black and white.

Album Cover (draft 2)

    

Here is our second draft of our album cover, which Kyle put together. Compared to the first draft, this one has a black background as our preference. We chose big bold white writing which will corospond with the background better and it will also be the focal point of the album cover.

More filming

On Tuesday afternoon, we continued filming our performance shots, we got footage of the band performing, indiviual shots of Cameron playing bass guitar and Andy on the drums. We got several different angles of band members including a birds eye view shot on Andy on the drums, mid shots of Cameron and close ups on the fret board of the bass guitar.

Mid shot of Cameron playing bass

Andys Birds eye view shot

Close up on the fret board of the bass guitar

Cameron and Andy performing together

Concluding the narrative filming

We have arranged to film the bouncer scene this Saturday morning, I have arranged for my friend Nathan to play the bouncer and basically shout and hit Calum outside a local pub in Waterfoot.

Masons Arms

Band Members

Vocals- Calum Crummet
Guitar- Robbie Coppack (me)
Bass Guitar- Cameron Fairburn
Drums- Andrew Whittiker

Album Cover (1st draft)

 

This is our first draft of our album cover, it is far from our end product which hope to get. The idea for our album cover is for it to be mug shots, these however come across very ameuturish which nobody in our group is keen on.

Overall this isn't far away from what we want, it just needs to be more of a mug shot fashion which we orginally planned.