Diary Day 1 (Thursday 1st October 2015) - Day 1 of Filming 'Performance'

Today was the day of our first shoot, we went over to QEMS at 8.45 and started setting the stage up
ready to film the performance. we finally got the stage set up by 9.10am, We spent 45 minutes filming

6 performances with over 30 clips. Once we got everything ready on the stage we spent 20 minutes deciding on what lighting sequence we should use for the performance with deciding on what colours would benefit the shoot. In total we used 3 Tripods, 2 DSLR's, 1 Go Pro and a Sony Camera. There weren't any issues or problems which we encountered, however Thomas had to leave at 9.35 for a driving lesson, at first we saw this as a major problem but Haydyn and Myself decided to start recording individual shots (I.E - Close up's on Faces, GoPro shots on the Bass/Guitar) and other shots involving Haydyn and Myself.

The time came to 9.49am and Thomas arrived back on set in which we spent the last 25 minutes

Haydyn Briggs Focus Shot for The Last Dance

filming the Group shots on the stage, floor and side wings. To right of this paragraph, you can see Haydyn and Myself performing The Last Dance. Using some focusing techniques on the Canon EOS 500 and 600D we were able to create some lovely framing using the focus on the lens to blur me out in the background which really captures Haydyn's performance vocally.

In the shot to the right again we see another focusing shot however this time we can see Myself 'Ben

Ben Woodward Focus Shot for The Last Dance

Woodward' performing The Last Dance vocally, mainly capturing the Microphone and Mouth. These Shots were mainly influenced by other Music Videos by Pop/Rock bands in the world such as Foo Fighters. The Foo Fighters use this shot in the Music Video for 'Best of You' which is what i originally wanted to capture through the lens for my Video.

While we were filming Haydyn's Bass Performance focusing on his face and Bass i decided to take some footage as evidence of the equipment we used and how we filmed each frame. Here is the clip presented below:

As you can see from the footage we used a GoPro on Haydyn's Bass Headstock to film some experimental shots for the Video, we also placed a Camera focusing on Haydyn's Microphone, I also placed another Camera focusing on my Microphone in which we would film after Haydyn's Bass Performance. It's quite hard to see in the footage presented but we moved two large speakers facing the stage so that we can hear the song clearly whilst performing the song. This was extremely difficult for Thomas to play to as the Drum Kit is the loudest instrument there meaning he had to play as quiet as possible which kind of had a bad impact performance wise as he looks like a laid back jazz musician. The shots filmed using the DSLR's however look fantastic as you can see in the screenshots presented above of Myself and Haydyn Performing The Last Dance on Thursday.

I plan to film the beginning of the Narrative, The Dream Sequence and The Ending Narrative Tomorrow (Friday 2nd October 2015).