Our First Rough Cut Recording

On the right you will see a checklist that me and my group used to identify what we used to make sure we had all the equipment needed on the day of filming as well as to insure that we would keep everything from getting lost.

When we arrived the group started setting up the equipment right away whilst i was greeted by Reverend Martin, he told us that a trusted ex-warden would be available to help us at any time whilst he does some odd jobs around the church. Luckily, the warden was able to help us Light up the church and set up the equipment.

We set our selves up in a placement that had the most space and windows, which gave us a nice amount of natural lighting.

Our first priority within our filming was getting shots of Dan, the lead singer and the band as a whole. The main reason for this was due to how Dan would be leaving earlier than the rest of our group. So my group chose to focus on the instruments individually after he leaves us.

Each member of the group took it upon themselves to find a role to take. Jamie lead the filming and was mostly working with the camera, Elliot was making sure the lighting worked with our piece as well as checked on the mise-en-scene. I was working on the violin and double checked shots, told Jamie how we could shoot certain shots, kept in contact with warden and associate with him for assistance.

Next we made sure the band knew what they was doing so we showed them the animatic and set up our ipod music system so that the band members could play in time with the song.

When we started filming, we understood that the singer would be leaving earlier than the rest of the so we thought the logical thing would be to start with him, so we took a variety of close up and medium shots of the lead singer. we also started taking long-shots of the band as a whole. After the singer left we took close-ups onto the instruments and concentrated on them.

But as a whole we allowed the band to play through the song twice whilst my group continually filmed the band. This gave us a variety of shots over a small space of time and we didn't need to keep repeating certain lines. the main idea behind this was because the beats,chords and progression of the song was all in all very similar and so it allowed editing to become much more easier when we look back, after this we only went over certain things that would not be constant, such as the violin little part mid chorus and the singer in general.

As the natural light became dimmer we needed to rely more upon our own lighting source. So we asked the warden who was checking up on us if eh could help. He happily let us use a more powerful light bulbs and these helped us get a nice glow on instruments such as the cello and violin. We knew from the day of filming that we would need to schedule another day to record the lead singer since when looking at some parts afterwards it became clear that we needed the singer to look more into the camera.