Re-filming - Performance

I feel this shoot went really well as we had considered the fine details such as lighting and set design as well as the more obvious like camera angles and movements and basic mise en scene.
Because our last shoot was overexposed (which made our video look very unprofessional and became an issue when editing) Catherine was taught by David, our lights technician, how to use the lighting equipment in the drama hall so we could get it perfect. This worked out much better for us as we had a much clearer idea what sort of lighting we wanted than David did.

We added much more decoration to our performance, partly due to having a clearer idea of what our target audience wants, and partly because we have developed our project ideas dramatically in the past couple of weeks. We decided to add a logo on the drum kit, a convention of band performance of every genre. By putting a heart on the drums we played with the idea of a 'beating heart' suggesting that even though the drums are always in the background they are a vital element of a band and are the heart of this bands dynamic.


We also found perfect blood red leaves which we scatted at the feet of our band, as leaves and autumn are a recurring feature of our video, representing the decay of nature similar to the decay of the human body and mind.






Although we had included the conventional close ups on our lead singer we decided to include closeups on our bands faces, to give the other band members a more active role in there music video. This makes the video more realistic as although the lead singer of a rock band is always the center of attention they would be nothing without the music, including the people playing them - in our new cut we made an effort to reflect this in the video.
We tried to include them early on in the video to act almost as an establishing shot of each band member.

Because our last set was so plain we added a simple background to add a but more depth to the proformance. We built up the rostra in the drama hall and draped red ribbon and fabric across it to represent blood. we have tried to make this rather violent concept quite feminine by using soft imagery. In some ways the industrial rostra represents the men in the band and the fabric represents our female lead who, even though she is outnumbered is still the center of attention.