Lo3 - Setting up production materials

1) To start setting up for filming, my group members and I got our the three canon DSLR cameras out. Each camera was set to a low aperture because we were filming in a dark room therefore we needed the camera to pick up moer light. However, the spot lights in the studio  we're extremely difficult to work with as we had zero control over which settings they changed too (it was automatic on a loop) meaning sometimes the room as dark and others it was bright during filming - this resulted in many clips being unusable as we couldn't adjust the settings in time to
keep up with the lighting in the room

2) Secondly, we got out our soft box lighting, we only had one box and consequently it had little impact, therefore we decided not to use it. However, we needed to ensure that we were fully prepared for filming and therefore we brought it as a contingency. The soft box also caused an inconvenience in regards to the way the cameras picked up lighting, creating an uneven and out of focus shot as we couldn't adjust the aperture to capture both highlighted and shadowed areas of the studio properly. 

3) After playing around with the softbox lighting and cameras, we got out the two tripods that we brought and adjusted the lengths of them during different scenes in order to ensure that we had a range of different angles and connotations within the music video. We only brought two tripods because we knew that we wanted one of the cameras to be manually held in order to not only get better close ups but we knew that the shaky hand held camera denotation was conventional to the indie genre as it seems 'edgy' due to the unprofessional aspect of it. Helping us meet the conventions of our bands genre.






4) This image shows how we placed the cameras securely on the tripods during filming in order to ensure that our footage was still and smooth, conventional to a professional and realistic music video. We used the handles that stick out of the tripod to move the cameras smoothly during filming and adjusted the height of the camera using the legs of the tripod to create conventional angels that are typically seen within music videos of the indie genre. Such as a low anle, helping connote that the band are more dominant than the viewer, making them feel a little frightened, which is something that we associate with band members (typical grunge, intimidating denotation)









5) The image to my left demonstrates me and my team member Mia Rehman setting up a slider / dolly over the two tripods that we brought to film with. In order to do this we placed the dolly over the two tripods and screwed in the side handles onto the main bit of the tripod that helps hold the typical camera in place. We then attached the camera to the middle piece of the slider.









6) This image shows the final product of the dolly / slider with the camera attached. We did use the slider and scenes of my music video can be denoted that were made with the slider, however - overall I found that simply using the handle on the tripod gave a much smoother denotation within the footage as the piece that allowed the camera to slide on the dolly was fairly stiff and therefore gave lagging effect. However again similar to the soft box lighting I'm glad we brought it as we needed to ensure that we had everything necessary to film a good, professional music video.