Ancillary Task- The Strangers

Last Wednesday the 9th of November our 'The Strangers' came to our school to perform which gave a chance for us media students to have a go at filming their performance. We worked in groups and chose our songs that we wanted them to perform and with 3 cameras experimented with shots to record successful footage of their performance. Something that we later on edited on the Macs to create our own performance music videos.

The Strangers are a synth pop band that has 3 members. 1 singer 1 electric drummer and 1 keyboard player. The resemble the band the Hurts. Their music is quite electronic



In our group was Annie,Frank,Jess,Michael,James and me we looked at The song if I found love

Their orginal music video...

Problems that our group encountered

·         Strangers turned up nearly half an hour late which messed up each groups filming slots.

·          After The Strangers turned up it was at least another half an hour to set up the equipment and do sound checks

·         Our group Only had three SD cards it would have been better if we had four because we could have used another camera which would have allowed more footage

·         We decided that ‘If I found love’ was the song we wanted to film them performing the problem was that they song they performed wasn’t the same as the one they had previously produced on YouTube so when it came to editing the film it was very hard to lip sync with the original song.

·         The pit was a bit awkward to film in as it was a bit cramped with everyone in there. The Strangers set up their equipment right in corners so this restricted Framing and lighting and also the range of shots that we could achieve.

·         One of the cameras was not turned on, one of the members of the group accidently didn’t turn the camera on when filming and that camera being right at the front we couldn’t get valuable footage

•  The cameras had to move with the performers, which proved very difficult they didn’t seem to cooperate when we were filming so we had to film round what the performers were doing.