Further Research + Planning (shots + Filming techniques)

Now we had an idea on where we would be filming we thought it would be useful to carry out a bit of research on different filming techniques and shots to give us ideas on how to create our own video. As we had not really had  brilliant experience in filming before we thought this would be worthwile to us as we would be gaining a greater insight into the variety of different techniques that could be used. This could also help us make our video look more professional and better set out.

For this research we looked through music magazine booklets as these were very relevent to the topic. These booklets also gave us video links that would help us understand some shots better. We may or may not choose to incorporate the techniques we research into our video, but this will still help us gain more knowledge on what it takes to film a good quality video.

Below is an image of one of the books we used for our research.

This particular magazine had a text involving 'Hollywood film techniques'. This text talked of the 'Kuleshov effect'. This technique is an editing technique that prompts the viewer to infer a single location from a series of shots, without requiring the need of an establishing shot. Below I have included another image that demonstrates the idea of this shot...

After reading these books we have a better idea of the different types of shots we can incorporate into our music promo video. As we film our video we will identify whether or not we can use these kinds of filming techniques to fit the style of video we are planning on creating. As we have stated previously we already know that we want to include many close ups of the band members in order to provide the viewers with high quality shots of the bands to make them appear more appealing to them. We also want to include a numerous amount of establishing shots in order to show the beautiful and different locations we plan on setting our video in.