We filmed on the 15th and 22nd of march. The first date was a complete scuff, the tape being scratched and unreadable by the cassette player. Although we captured a lot of good footage, we did not let this hold us back. We arranged to film next week, and we were aware of how we could make it all better. This first week of shooting gave us a lot of problems. We were not sure how to arrange everyone, there was disagreements within the group. While I personally was starring in the video, I could not have as much impact on the cinematography as I may have liked to. While I filmed close ups of other members of the band, most of the shots we did had to be of the entire group playing together. This meant Doug had to film the majority of it. Although he was creative and committed in his camera use, he seemed to be unaware of many points of composition and focal points. A lot of the time he turned it to manual focus, and did not know how to turn it back to auto focus, so much of the footage that managed to make it through to editing was completely out of focus. Altogether though, we all learned from our mistakes and the second date was made much better by this fact.
The second date was a roaring success. Me and Doug implicated discipline in the band, capturing about an hour and a halfs footage in the three hours shooting time we had. We did close ups of everyone by the backdrop, rapidly moving the set and instruments around to fit the shot. There was also an energy in the band, and enthusiasm in the camera angles that was not apparent in the previous week. I consider myself and the group extremely lucky that it was the first tape that was unreadable and not the one from this week. We only had the footage from the 22nd, and this gave us very limited options during the editing process. However we pulled through, and it all came out looking very satisfactory. I am proud of both my performance as a mime and instrumentalist as well as Doug's skill with a video camera.
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