Production Log: Week 1

Monday: We learnt how to use the website www.wix.com effectively to create a website for our band. I found this fascinating as there was so much to customise so that your band's page could look exactly how you wanted it to.
We then met as a group and finalised the schedule for the filming in the studio, making sure we had everything we needed for each day

Tuesday: Our first day of filming. We set aside today for filming the coffin set-up shots. Although to begin with we were behind schedule, we soon managed to get back on track and completed all the shots we needed with enough time to spare so that we could also film the candle/seance shots.I filmed the majority of the shots in the Seward Studio and Frank helped with the playback of the song. Later on Frank filmed the candle shots and the moving camera for the coffin set-up whilst I sorted the playback.
Using this footage, we could then start to roughly edit to our track and therefore see what we needed to do differently with other set-ups

Wednesday/Thursday: On Wednesday and Thursday we edited the footage we had taken from Tuesday into a rough edit (although unfortunately we were meant to film some more on Thursday but we had been double booked and needed to cancel)
From editing our footage I saw that we needed to frame our shots at a closer distance so that we could see more of Olivia's face whilst she was lip-syncing.

Friday: Our schedule for Friday was probably the busiest compared to the rest of the week. In the morning we shot the solo performance set-up for Olivia. We managed to film the majority of shots for the solo performance before we then moved on to Ben's solo performance. This started well, until two of the guitar strings snapped and we had to abandon the rest of the shots as we couldn't do any close ups of Ben.
Finally, we got the whole band together and shot the entire band performance shots. This was a lot more time consuming than I had first thought, and we didn't manage to get as many takes as we would have liked. However, we still have bookings for the whole band so we aim to shoot the whole band performance shots next week.