Filming the band

Today we filmed the band at the youth centre in Bishop's Stortford. We decided to do this at around 7pm as we knew it would be darker and therefore our lighting behind the drummer would look more effective. We set up the mise en scene whilst the band prepared to play the song by moving the microphone stands and wires so that they would fit into our shot. We wanted the mise en scene to look low budget as when we did the audience research into what they wanted to see, this is what they said. To do this, we used the black sheet we borrowed from the drama studio and hung it from pipes behind the band and found a white cage to put up to add to the punk image. We used an industrial work light and put it facing the drummer so that the camera would not pick up just the light, and the band would be seen. We asked the band to wear a shirt with skinny jeans and maybe a tie or jacket so that it would fit in with the style of punk and I think it looked very realistic as they already have an edge, we just added to their look, we also asked them not to do much with their hair and to make it messy. Using two cameras meant we could get two different types of shot per playing of the song, therefore we only needed the band to play the song twice in order to get four different camera angles.
Overall the day went well and next lesson we will upload this footage to the mac's and hopefully start editing.