Music Video Planning: Equipment and Lighting

In order to shoot the music video that we plan on creating; we require a collection of equipment that will allow us to film the video efficiently.

Camera(s)


The camera that we initially plan to use to film our video is the Canon 600D. This will give us a good quality resolution to our footage and will allow our music video to look as professional as possible.

However, if there becomes a problem with us using the 600D, we have planned that we will use the Sony HDR Handycam's. This camera is a smaller, more portable camera that will be easy to transport to any locations that we plan to film at, however, it will give a slightly worse picture quality in comparison to the 600D.


Lighting


In order to light the scenes that we will be shooting, we have a variety of options.

For the scenes in the car park, where we are hoping that lighting will be scarce, we are planning to use either the natural light from the street lights. However, if this becomes a problem, we have planned that we will use a car's headlights to light up the scene and a rotolight is also available.

In terms of the chase scenes and other various scenes that will be shot outdoors, we simply plan to use the natural lighting of the scene. However, if any enhancements to the lighting need to be made, we will use one of the afforementioned options (headlights/rotolight)

During the scenes in the gym, we plan to use the lights that are built into the room. These will give a good amount of light to our video, without over exposing the shot. The walls of the gym are also white and so the light will bounce from them, giving an even lighting to the scene.

If we use the studio for one of our scenes, we have various different lighting techniques available to us. We plan to use the "barn door" lights and face them towards the bottom half of our performers to give them a more threatening look.

I will be providing an extra blog post showing location test shots of these areas.