Shooting Day at Platform

26th of October was the scheduled date to shoot the music video. Overall I think it went well and we mangaed to shoot various base tracks. While there, we ended up improvising and shot two extra base tracks which was not previously in our pitch or initial plan.

In order for us to use Platform, we had to pay a fee which was quite expensive since we're students but nevertheless I think it was money well spent. The Studio had a huge space, a nice wall for our background and also lights which we figured out how to use to our liking.

During planning, we had the idea of using two extra performers in the music video with mask and in black so to not take the attention of Sylvie Gray our artist. However, after looking back at the clips, it looks like the material we have with the extra performers was not up to standards.

The spotlights that were avaliable for us ranged from diferent anlges and to difference colours. We decided to use all of them so we have more material to use when editing.

These light switches were really helpful. We were able to change and have the lights how we wanted to. The possibilities were endless. Further on in this blog you will be able to see a clip of a little experiment I did with the lights. 

One thing that was really useful was the lights. While there I came up with the idea to get a close up f the lights and and mess about which created a really nice effect. After reviewing them, I wanted to use it at the beginning of the video where it is just instrumental.

However, I still feel like we should shoot at least two more basetracks behind a black wall. If this is so then we can use the green screen room in college which has a huge black curtain which covers everything. I say this because, I've had time to think about how we are going to edit what we have and I came across an idea of more shots which could possibly work. This is a low angle panning shot going from left to right and then right to left.