Filming;

We have decided to shoot the video at the band practice room, which is Get Sorted in Rotherham.

We were originally going to follow the same story and narrative of the Black Dahlia Murder video, but we realised this was too ambitious so we decided to keep the video within the band practice room.

Problems we had with the filming was mainly the battery in the camera, it had to be constantly on charge but we shot enough footage to capture shots that were really good to use in our video.

We used two tripods, but we had a "hand-held" approach, as this looked better within the video. We cut these shots, and edited these frequently within our video so we represented a metal video as much as possible.

We also decided to turn the video to black and white after filming. We thought this looked better because it follows the same convention of the video "Set to Fail" by Lamb of God.



Above is a picture of Randy Blythe. This is an extract from the video of Set To Fail. We had the vocalist of the band (Jamie) looking into the camera with the mic, pretty much the same as the image. We showed Jamie the picture and video, and asked for him to try and copy Randy's moves as much as possible.

We also asked the other band member's to try and demonstrate "metal" personas as much as possible. They were all fine with this, and demonstrated this really well.

We showed them two videos, including War Ensemble by Slayer. Below is the video, we watched it carefully and grabbed some shots and showed the band what we would like them to do to make the video of ours look as real as the Slayer video.



These are the pictures we used to show the band how we'd like them to perform.





These are just two examples of screen shots that we showed the band, as we also showed them the video of Day 69 - Decapitated. Below is the video, and again there are many shots in the video that show certain shots we'd specifically like to use.



After watching other several videos, ranging from Meshuggah to Black Dahlia Murder, we realised that all of the metal videos we watched and researched showed that the genre of metal, specifically in their videos, use excessive editing techniques. There were many cut-aways and high-angle shots used. When the video was recorded, we made sure that when we were filming the band with the hand-held technique, that they were filmed at a low-angle so the member we were filming looked dominant. This is a common interpretation, and high-angle shots represent dominance, and as the audience we are the sub-ordinates as we are subjected to watching the video with the dominant figure.

We produced our call sheet, which is below: