Kill It Kid - Production

On the day of the filming Keiran and I were in charge of logistics in terms of how we would get the kit there as we had 4 Z1's it wasn't just a case of taking on the bus. Keiran luckily had all the equipment so it was case of picking him up in Oldfield Road and driving to Komeida for around about 3pm which gave us around 4 hours to set up before the gig began.

After we had dropped all the equipment off at Komedia we had a look around the venue to see where would be the best place to have the cameras situated. We decided we would go with 2 cameras on tripods and 2 handheld. The 2 which we would put on tripods were placed with one behind the sound desk, which we would also use to get the feed for the music and we had one up in the second tier to get some really good sweeping shots and slow zooms of the band. We then had one handheld in the pit to get some atmosphere shots and finally one on stage with the band for some good close ups.

We took the decision not to film the other bands that we're performing on the night, mainly because of tape space and battery life for the cameras.

I was operating the camera in the second tier. It was my job to get shots mainly of the front man and keyboard player. These were the 2 lead singers of the group so they were my focus when getting close ups. I was also there to get shots of the band as a whole from a good vantage point. My camera would also act as a back up for if something went wrong with the others. This is because I had a good angle of the whole band and we could always use it as a fall back when cutting between the cameras in the pit and on stage.

After the gig we then waited in the lobby were we got some good vox pops from people about if they enjoyed the gig. We thought this would be a nice touch to round off the video as it is getting peoples opinions on the band and what the atmosphere was like and most of all their opinions of the set as a whole. There was strong positive feedback from the audience which would make it nice to add to a promo video for the band.

We had 2 tapes each and all agreed to change tapes after the 5th track. This was so all the tapes would have the same start and end point. In a 9 song set we were worried that we may run out of time on one single tape. The tape change overs were really the only stressful thing as we only had a short time in between songs to do them.

Overall I felt the production process went well. We all had a clear idea of what we were supposed to be focusing on so we wouldn't all be filming the same band member or drum solo for example. The tape changeover for myself went smoothly and I felt confident about the number of different shots that I got.