The Junction Fiver Gig

By the time all the bands had finnished sound checking etc and everything was ready there was a resonable que forming out side, so James and I took the opertunity to film everyone waiting to come in and do a couple of little interviews. Dave set up his camera on a tripod facing the door everyone was going to come in through so he could film the crowd all coming in at the start.

When the music actually started we all had to make sure we were on top form and paying attention to everything that was going on around us, so as not to miss filming important things that made our footage exceptional and not just standard gig footage.

The key things we wanted to film was;

• Each band coming on stage (from front of stage)
• Each band coming off stage (from back stage)
• Atleast a whole song from each band
• Crowd footage/reaction to each band
• An interview with each band

I think all in all the filming was very succesfull and we achived everything we wanted to and more. The experience was incredible and really gave me a big insight to filming live performances and working with large groups of the public. I loved the fact that everyone treated us like such professionals and with a lot of respect. We wern't considered to be in anyones way at any point and were often asked if things were ok for us and if there was any thing that could be done to make the filming go better, e.g. the lighting tech asked us if we had rolling shutters on our camera because if not his strobe lighting could cause all the footage to look terrible because it would cause big white lines to appear on the screen. but luckily it was ok and looked great.