Sorry for the delay on updating you about how I've been getting on with writing up my camera script, it's been a hectic few days! Last week, after listening to the song 'Caught Me Cold' by the band we are making a music promotional video for, Rangoon Sons, I started on writing up a shot for the acoustic performance we will be recording in the TV Studio.
The song is off their EP 'Come Back Home' and has a upbeat and Indie feel to the track which basically sums up the band's overall sound. The band chose this song themselves to perform acoustically in the studio, for reasons I am not fully aware of but I actually enjoyed listening to the track over and over again whilst writing up the shot list, even though I wouldn't usually listen to Indie music on a regular basis. Whilst carefully listening to the lyrics I found it relatively easy to think of shots that would best fit the upbeat rhythm of the song. For example when the lead singer, Mike is singing alone, I found it necessary not only to use close-ups and extreme close-ups on his mouth to the microphone, but also to use medium close-ups of Mike's hand on the guitar to add a bit of variety to the shots rather than a string of close-ups, long shots and pans to the singers' faces. To get a bit of inspiration for how an acoustic performance is best shot, I browsed through a range of YouTube videos such as
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