We decided we wanted to film in black and white for this section, again because all of the other footage is in colour and we want to keep it varied, but also because it's one of the conventions we saw in a couple of pop punk music videos.
Careful by Paramore has a mix of colour and black and white and the video is dominated by live footage. This is similar with The Consequence by You Me At Six, they have mostly footage fro their live shows, but also behind the scenes clips of the band members, but with this video it is all filmed in black and white.
By having a dark black background, when the white lights on the stage flash, they really stand out and shine on the musicians faces - almost giving a strobe lighting effect.
As usual, we had some issues when filming:
The camera hadn't been charged since the last shoot so we had to battle getting all the footage needed before the battery died. Luckily, we did get enough before it did, but it would have been nice to get the lip sync from a few different angles. Having said this, this location will only be seen in short clips so we don't really need a lot of footage.
Also, at one point, the memory card was full and the spare we had wouldn't work in the camera. We had to delete all of the old footage that was on the camera, but fortunately it was already on the computer, so not too much of a problem. In order to get the shots we wanted, we had to set up the equipment (the mic stand and leads, also the headphones) and position them in the right place so we had the drum kit in the background.
Overall I think the filming went well.
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