Filming the Band

I met the girls at 3pm to begin filming because I'd had a House Music rehursal. They'd done a brilliant job, with help from Mr Wellington, of setting up the lights and cameras in Dean's Hall.

We didn't have much time as the band had to be in Tring as they had a recording session at 6.00. This meant that we had until 5.30 to get everything we needed. The pressure was well and truly on!

We used two sets of four coloured lights which had already been set up for the school disco the night before, they were fitted so that they flashed in time to the music which was very effective. We also had four free standing spotlights, which meant that we could enhance and lighten the appearence of the band, taking away any shadow which may fall due to natural light, hopefully making the footage look more professional.

We set up the cameras so that we had Camera 1 directly in front of the stage, about half way down the hall. We had Camera 2 to the left of the stage, and Camera 3 to the right. We had the band repeat the song until we had a varied amount of angles and distances from the band.

After we had filmed from the floor, we moved the three cameras up to the stage and filmed each band member playing through the song individually.

Although it was a highly charged, stressful and busy afternoon. Essentially, the band were lovely to work with, it was enjoyable and very successful!