Shoot Day

Thanks to all our prior planning, our shoot day got off to a good start, with all our cast assembled in the correct costume with the instruments they needed. We then proceeded to set up our camera rig, which consisted of 4 cameras. The camera filming the wide shot was a JVC 1500E and the three others taking close-ups of the various band members were Sony PD170’s. All the cameras were mounted on Vinten tripods which we moved when we needed to take new shots. On the day our team comprised as myself as a camera operator of the wide shot and another PD170, and two members of the Media faculty on the other cameras. Lauren Holley was the director and oversaw the whole shoot, and also did the clacker board for each take. Laura Nixon was in charge of the playback of the music track, which the band played along to. After lunch, we were done with the entire band except the



singer and so they left while we turned the studio into a blue screen room. The afternoon was spent shooting the singer miming his lyrics and acting on the blue screen on the JVC. All in all, the shoot day was a success as we managed to shoot many good band performances in both wide and close up shots and also managed to get some novel footage, like the close up of the bass drum pedal playing. However, some things did go wrong, which if not quickly dealt with could have put our whole shoot day off. Early on in the shoot, the



guitarist attempted a movement whereby he swung his guitar around his neck, and in the process dropped the guitar on to the concrete floor. This shattered one of the holding pins for the guitar strap and slightly broke the joint where the neck joined the body. To rectify this, a screw was put into where the old guitar strap button was, which acted admirably as a strap button for the rest of the day.