Producing this video over the past few weeks has been an absolute nightmare for q few main reasons - lack of resources, high dependency on others and just plain unlucky situations and events. We knew at the start how much of a momentous task this was going to be but we didn't anticipate many of the things that would happen with filming and editing that was going to cause problems or hindrance to the project's deadline.
First of all the biggest of problems that is still ongoing is the major issues with recording the green screen footage. With the run up to Christmas on its way everything else in life becomes a bit hectic and not only are our deadlines for the project closing in, but they are for many other students as well. Access to the green screen room to produce some film-work for the 'dream world' scenes became immensely hard to come by as all the rooms had been booked up to the half term. Not only was this the case, but trying to find others that were able to help became very hard also as they had priorities with activities outside of work such as jobs etc.
In order to make up for the time we decided that the best plan would be to try and film and edit quite a lot of the recordings over the Christmas break, but then this would inevitably lead us to one burden of a factor for the project, that it would have to be filmed inside a house of ours. For the green screen shots I knew that all you needed was in fact a big piece of cloth that was the colour green as keying works by eliminating a colour from a frame and green is the furthest away from your skin etc. Amazon proved to me that green screens weren't that cheap and in fact for a project such as this, paying out that much money for a good green screen wouldn't be as much beneficial as it would be ridiculous. Following the previous fact that the material just had to be green, I searched for 'green cloth' and an item came up for £1.04. The material clearly wasn't going to be that big but I knew that we could just tape multiple pieces together, so considering the price I ordered four pieces as well as some green tape. The items are on their way now, but the only problem now I that I still worry about the look of the shots and whether or not they will still look professional. On the other hand though the genre is indie and D.I.Y home made things are more a part of that genre rather than multi-million pound professional studios.
The final problem that we knew we would have to face over the Christmas break is that we wouldn't be able to have all of the equipment that the College provided and this meant that we had to stick with what we had. Luckily for myself I already own quite a bit of small pieces of equipment such as a tripod, a small dolly and a waterproof camera as well as a DSLR so it isn't going to be that difficult to record everything. The problem we still faced was that the shots we want to record with the GoPro won't be able to be done, which is extremely annoying as the shots taken in the tests seem to be very original yet creative and good looking. The GoPro was also the camera going to be used for the underwater shot and although I possess an underwater camera I am going to have to think of a way whereby the wide-angle look will still be able to be created as my camera doesn't offer the same as the GoPro. Finally the one other thing we won't have is one more DSLR to film with, so when it comes to the band performance it will take a lot longer than expected as we will have to take more shots on one of the cameras.
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