working on the music video

Overall i think the filming of are music video for Dead 60s - riot radio was successful, we had organised to hire out a recording studio room, in Cambridge called Mullet Boy Studios (New Market Road) we paid for 2 hours use of the studio. We used this time to film our music video inside the studio. After our two hours had ended when went to locations in Cambridge which we were going to film more sequences for the final video.

After the studio our next location was the area outside the Grafton Center, were the character in the video searching for the band seeks them out after hearing of their where abouts on the radio. His search begins on top of a multi story car park, where he is sitting, wearing a high visibility jacket he appears as someone working there, as a caretaker or cleaner.
A series of different types of shots were used to show his were abouts. With long and wide shots to show were he was, and close ups and medium shots to show his surprised expression upon hearing about the band (excited and eager to find them). A series of props were used, such as a radio player and the work-mans jacket to make the video seem more realistic and give more of a story to how the video turned out.

The majority of the studio footage was shot using a semi-fish eye lens, this made the camera angles wider and allowed more to be visible in the shot. For the outdoor sequences we used a normal camera lens, this allowed us to film from a distance for establishing shots and also gave us the opportunity to zoom in for certain sequences.

We made a shot list which was in order of what sequences would be filmed and when. The shot list included what type of shot we would use (i.e long shots, medium close ups) what would be taking places at the shot and the shots location.

We used a selection of different ways of filming, the hand held camera and also still tripod shots to add variety to the cinematography and stylized shaky camera shot.

The shots that worked best were the stylized shaky camera shot because they gave the impression of a lot of hurried movement, the close ups on the microphone emphasised the importance of the vocals.

We don't feel there was anything we could have done differently and are all pleased with the outcome so far, but a bit more time in the studio could have given us the opportunity for more run throes of the band performance, the performances were shot in a series of different speeds and we could have maybe tried some different effects to add variety.


Mitchell and Ramiz