Research - Live Performance Videoing

Today we had a band called Stangers come into our school, to perform a live song for us to then record to make a video from. We were slit into groups of 4/5 people and given cameras to then perform them live; which we will later on edit to make a full music video for the song that we chose. My group and I chose to record the song 'In Chaos', we used four cameras to film from different angles, and by using the pit we were able to have two people of the balcony and two on the floor near the stage. Use a dolly i was able to get closer to the band to then get the detail of each of the instruments, which will come in use when we are editing it in the editing suite, as we can match it up with the music and sync it to make it look professional. We also had Della on the ground, where the band were situated on the platforms, filming up close to the instruments also, with Chloe and Molly above on the balcony using high angle shots and Chloe also used a wide shot of the whole band. Due to not having a large amount of time we were only able to film it once, which meant that any takes that were wrong went that we couldnt redo them. From working with a real band made us realise what it is going to be like when we film our own music videos. Overall it was a very fun experience and i have taken a large range of ideas from it on how i am going to do my own music video, one of them being we might film in the pit as we have the balcony for high angles.