The first shoot...

We decided that we needed to get going with our video so we began the fist shot of the story board as planned. For this shot we only needed drumsticks and a drum so it was quite simple and easy to do in school. this shot was the introduction to the video so it was quite important that it was done well. the song starts with three drum taps as an intro to the actual song. this is why we thought to show the drums and the drumsticks. We planned to do this from a point of view shot making it a much more interesting first shot. Brad did this shot by holding the camera directly above the drumsticks as Darren taped them. We also took the next couple of shots in the same location. they were all extreme close up shots so the background wasn't in the shots. this meant that it didn't matter were we recorded the first few shots. the other shots were a close up of his lips singing the song and a close up of his eyes which we plan to fade in with a picture of a sunset which we will take some time next week. We uploaded the shots on to the Mac and Brad was able to sync the three drumstick taps quite neatly to the drumstick taps in the song. As a group we thought the first bit of the video looked really good.