Diary Entry

The first performance shoot was noticeably unprepared and I feel this showed in the play back of the footage, we decide to reshoot the whole band performance as we found it was not at the standard that the rest of our music video was at.
The reshoot of the Band took place at the lighthouse beach; this was a running theme through the video.
This is my diary entry for that day:
Filming for only two hours of performance shots required me to do a lot of preparation. We, as a group needed to arrange who was bring what and a time that was appropriate , we found that filming early in the morning worked well for all members of our groups due to other commitments on night times. So at 7 am we arranged to meet at the lighthouse in the area, seven was the earliest we could film this was because of the winter season and the late sunrise, the darkness would effect the filming as we were using natural lighting.
We started setting up prompt; we made sure that the lighthouse was visible in the background to create the correct mise-en-scene. By 7.45 we were set up with a full drum kit, guitar, amplifier and microphone. We used mini speakers to play the song so that we could hear the music and play along to the tempo.
After four full songs playbacks including static and mobile shots we each filmed one another to use as band close up to fit with codes and conventions of music videos.
To use our limited time efficiently we also look still images that would be used on our DVD cover.

The narrative in our music video was very important as part of our story line, we had to make sure that the story line was clear to the audience.
Four shoots in total we used as footage, as after editing that footage more ideas of what other things we could do came to mind, so we had to go back to the beach and add more footage. The first shoot was on Cullercoats beach in the caves, previous to shooting there we checked out the location to make sure that it was suitable and what we wanted.

Using a tripod and camcorder was all we needed as natural light was provided. Mise-en-scene was created using white dresses on both of the characters. The only prop used was a piece of parchment.
Shoot two: we decided to add more footage of the two main characters, so again we arranged to meet at the same location and same spot for continuity issues.