Group Meeting on Website

Today we had a group meeting based purely around the website. We came up with several good ideas and now have a strong sense of direction in terms of colour scheme and feel of the website.

Our first idea was to include a competition page on our website. We decided that a competition is an interactive and personal way for the audience to get involved with the band. The competition idea has been dubbed "Secret Gig" and will ficticiously take place some time in february. The competition requires the user to type in their name, age, email and quater. If they are lucky enough they will be emailed with the secret location of a wristband allowing entry to the underground show. We thought that this is an interesting way of getting our audience to spread the word about our band.

We also wanted to have a large range of posts on the website orientated mainly around the live gigs. This is because we decided that THE STORM is all about the music. Taking inspiration from Pendulum's website, we have decided to place as many references to these gigs as possible.

Finally we decided on one other special event: A STORM/INFLUX combined gig. This was a colaberated idea with group 1 which promotes both bands. Each site will link up to the others and we will make a special promotional poster for the event!

Peer feedback on first Edit

Here is some of the feedback we recieved from our peers on our first edit of the video:

Teacher feedback on first edit

This is our first finished edit (without colour grading).

We wanted feedback on our video so asked several teachers and friends. Here are some of their responses:

- More UV light at the ending

- Faster editing (opening and ending)

- More focus on lead singer; stronger singing shots

- Stairs section didn't work from 0:58

These improvement points where not plentiful; and we generally recieved much praise for the slickness and solid concept of our video; as well as the energetic performance.

Now we need to colour grade, and generally tighten the editing with quicker cuts and more shots used.

16th Wednesday UV Performance shoot

We had our final shoot today! Our very last shoot couldn’t have gone better. We have learnt from our filming experience what kind of shots to get and how best to organise this.

What we did well:                  We had planned well in advance what kind of symbols to place on ourselves and got them on ourselves quickly. We also managed to film a lot quicker than previous shoots purely thanks to gained experience.

What went badly:                   Not much went wrong. We were right down to the line on time but still managed to get everything we wanted.

What we’ll do next time:        If we were to film this again we wouldn’t do much more different other than to give ourselves more time.

10th Thursday Fight Scene shoot

Today was one of the most fun shoot days we’ve experienced. With Robbie and Eva really getting into the fight and a variety of fun build up shots (as well as the kiss scene) we are very happy to call this our final shoot day for narrative.

What we did well:                  We had planned every detail of the fight in detail and this meant the shoot day went by quickly and effectively, with time left over to experiment with some shots.

What went badly:                   Tripod was in many shots, but mostly our experimental shots. We also managed to scare a young mother with Eva’s eyes which was unfortunate.

What we’ll do next time:        If we were to film again I would put a lot more focus on the kiss to make sure we can get an effective ending when it comes to editing.

9th Wednesday Edmonton narrative

Today we left school to film around Edmonton. We improvised a variety of sections for the part of the narrative where Robbie is being followed.

What we did well:                  We got a variety of very good shots and managed to quickly choreograph loads of set ups.

What went badly:                   We were again rained out of what could have been a longer shoot day. A few of our ideas didn’t work but that was to be expected.

What we’ll do next time:        Next time we would plan in greater detail all of our set ups on location. We found it very helpful to set things up on scene.

Face paint ideas

6th Sunday Performance

Today’s shooting was just a continuation of yesterday. We now need no more standard performance shoots after today and only need to worry about finishing narrative and our UV shoot.

What we did well:                  We brushed past the technical problems yesterday and managed to get everything we needed quickly and effectively

What went badly:                   We often didn’t think about placement of props or cameramen and sometimes managed to get them in shot. However we have more than enough useful footage.

What we’ll do next time:        If we were to have another shoot, we would just be repeating ourselves. We have really got the hang of these shoots now and already have most of our footage.

5th Saturday Performance

Today we put into action everything we had been told to do last week. The performance was a lot more vibrant than last weeks attempt and, thanks to our set up being sorted much quicker, we were able to get a whole lot of different shot types. We especially made sure to get close ups of the drums which we felt we were missing. However, part way through our shoot two of the studio lights we were using blew. We had to spend time sorting out lighting with limited sources.

What we did well:                  We did brilliantly to get started so quickly and managed to get a huge variety of effective and beautiful shots. We will definitely use a lot of the footage we got today.

What went badly:                   Unforeseen events involving the studio lights set our shooting back and left us with both a tricky lighting set up and bad moods.

What we’ll do next time:        We will do exactly what we did over again, but this time, be prepared for all eventualities. We will also get some more of the shots we didn’t have time to get, for example a close up of the bassist’s fingers.

Set Design

We spent a lot of time dressing our set and are very happy with the way it works with our video. We first spent a lot of time cleaning out Robbie's basement, followed by spray painting and pinning up various black sheets.

We are very proud of how this has turned out. It was a gerat idea to use this symbol as a form of branding of our band. We are very excited to see how the UV paint turns out.

2nd Wednesday first performance shoots

Today we had our first shoot for performance. We were slow to get started, with lighting set ups and final set dressing to take care of, however when we got going we had a lot of fun. It was a very promising first attempt.

What we did well:                  The performance went well and we had a good chance to figure out lighting and quickly saw that the band members we chose were good together.

What went badly:                   Unfortunately, since it was our first shoot we didn’t quite get off the ground as quickly as we could have. After getting feedback on our footage, miss blackborow mentioned our lack of enthusiasm in our playing and the over exposed faces due to harsh lighting in certain shots.

What we’ll do next time:        Next time we can sort out the lighting quicker and make sure we don’t over expose the shots. We will also make sure to perform with a higher level of enthusiasm right from the word go (a lot of coffee will be needed)

Performance Shoot Schedule

Here is the schedule we have made for our performance shoot with a list of shots and times:

Shooting Schedule for 26th