The day before the shoot was very nervous. We were busy arr4aging everything for the shoot, however, it still felt to me that we were not prepare. We quickly sketched our schedule for shooting on location, it made me feel a little better, but I still wasn’t sure how it would. This evening we conducted a rehearsal with our band, which I was really satisfied with. Each of them was genuinely engaged in the process. Next thing we did was that we started building a set, namely, attaching wallpapers to the walls and bringing props that we needed for our shoot in the studio. And, to my surprise, it was rather exciting. However, we had to leave before the set was built completely. Nevertheless, next day as soon as we entered the studio we were ready to shoot, thanks to our amazing set designer, T.A.
Due to a necessary change in our idea two weeks before, we didn't have enough time to work through all the details of our concept, but I think what we finally had got was just amazing. Ripped wallpapers, feathers lying everywhere, a knife in a mattress etc. I guess it was pretty close to what we intended it to look like.
However, our shoot hasn't started until after lunch since there was a gas leakage in the studio. And because of this predicament, we decided that we shot the other bit bit of our music video which is supposed to happen in the forest, but then again we didn't go to Kate's house as we initially planned and went to look for locations nearby school...
But we didn't find anything good enough... Thus it was only after lunch when the smell of gas in the studio dissipated and we were able to start shooting. By that time I felt reasonably discouraged and wished that the filmed another day since it seemed like everything was going wrong.
Nevertheless, we got our band into the studio immediately after lunch and started shooting. I was given a role of camera operator and director of photography to some extent...
Melissa was taking stills.
Megan was on a slate.
And Kate was directing.
And I think all of us did pretty well on our roles. We didn't have a lot of time to shoot, but managed to get all the shots almost in time and on quite a high level. I thought some of the shots that I have proposed were quite beautiful and reflected our concept at the same time, and I'm sure that eventually our video has a potential to become really good. There were several shots in particular which I really liked and I proud I have made them.
However, it was pleasing that we worked cooperatively with our group, so the shoot went pretty quick and smooth,
although the beginning of this day didn't presage anything like it. Generally, we almost didn't have problems during the shoot. There were several Wide shots where we had problems with the strap of our base guitarist, but merely substituted it and filmed a couple more takes.
So I was very happy with the way the shoot went, although I think the most fun part of the shoot was when we filmed CUs and ECUs of our lead singer since the framing and the lighting was brilliant and he is an impeccable performer. I also got to operate the camera during the take, which I didn't have a chance to do during the rest of the shoot. It was tense, but overwhelmingly exciting.
I don't think there were any major flaws with our shoot. The only part I wish had gone better was the first part of the day, when were simply wasting out time and keeping our band waiting. That was very frustrating.
However, still I really enjoyed filming. We probably wouldn't get that standard of material if we were in a different mood and I think we managed everything pretty well. As I already said the group was working very cooperatively we were trying not to lose a lot of time, which we quite succeeded in.
And now, obviously, we need to make a lot of changes to our website and artwork, in fact, completely redo them, start anew. But, to be fair, I enjoy this idea and song (oh, song is just fabulous!!) much more than enjoyed the previous one, so it's a great pleasure for me to work on this project and I'm looking forward for the final product!
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