Filming In The Studio

After filming the live footage, I realised that we didn't have sufficient footage to make a really good video so, as the band had a week in the studio coming up, I decided to take some footage i there. We had drums and bass on Monday, guitars on Tuesday, vocals on Wednesday and mixing on Thursday and Friday. This was a preset schedule for the filming of the week too.

I concentrated on close ups on the first three days. While I was watching a Jeff Buckley video, I saw that most of the shots were extreme close ups of Jeff singing. I thought that these were really effective and decided to use them myself on our singer.

On the Monday I took close ups of the drums and the bass player. I got shots inside the live room and through the window in the control room. On the tuesday, pretty much the same thing. On the vocal day, I found that the tripod wasn't big enough to get the shot I wanted. So I decided to put each leg on a different chair. This helped me get into the singers eyeline.

On the last two days I mostly got footage of the desk and computer. It was almost like a kind of documentary kind of thing which is a cool convention of rock videos.

We will just have to see how the footage comes out.