Catch Up

That weekend we decided to go to the bar in our free time (knowing it was open) because we had missed out filming in the previous lessons but unfortunately when we turned up there was a football game on so the bar was extremely busy and they told us to come back next week. We understood and because we didn’t want to waste a trip we decided to skip the first shot and start to film the main clip while we had the chance and the Weather was good. This involved the character going around town after being possessed by the “Omen”We thought the area was a good place to shoot this because there were a lot of back alleys and not crowded unlike the rest of town. We had the tripod on wheels with us so we used it and filmed about 40 minutes worth of shots which we thought was a very good start to the video.

By Christopher Mckeeney

POV Shot Video

Unfortunately the next lesson we couldn’t go back to the bar because of the opening times on the day so we decided to make a small video showing the progression of our testing. When we were trying out techniques for getting the POV perspective we filmed each shot so we put all of these together to show the progression we had made. This includes the camera helmet and the Fig Rig.

By Michael Sabti

Filming the First Shot & Editing

The next lesson we went out and after searching around town we found “Dry 201” a really good bar and they gave us permission to shoot in.As it was going to be the opening of the video we listened closely to the song and because there were a lot of single beats at the start, we decided to incorporate this into the video. When the barman was walking towards the character, we decided for every beat, there would be a small jump cut so it gave the effect of the barman coming closer without actually walking.We went back to edit the clip and after looking at edited clip we realised there was a lot of movement in the background which made it look unprofessional and when the barman was coming towards us, we didn’t allow enough of a gap to add the jump cut so the picture looked distorted so we decided to re-shoot it.
We also used a programme called Motion which gave us the ability to make an introducing title which we also edited to the beat of the song.

By Paul Strafford

Narrative

Now we knew how to film it, we started to think of the narrative. Our idea for the video was to get the character to be possessed by the Omen by taking a drink. This is when the video starts to change, it will speed up and we will add jumps cuts to show how ecstatic and crazy things are.With this song, there are a lot of different significant beats where we can introduce these jump cuts. Hopefully it will be a good addition to the video and give the effect we are looking for.For the opening scene, the character will take a drink (mentioned above) so we decided to do a recky, looking for a suitable bar with a good surrounding to film later on in the video.

By Paul Strafford

Techniques

We began experimenting with ways of achieving the first person perspective that we desired for the video, our original idea was to attach the camera to a helmet and film PoV shots, this concept is also used in the comedy programme “Peep Show”. We began testing this technique but we soon found we had little control of the camera and it didn’t look realistic. We replaced the helmet with another piece of equipment called a Fig-Rig which gave us control over the camera and enabled to put the camera at eye level to give us the PoV perspective we desired.

By Christopher Mckeeney