Our third project for Experimental was to shoot a music video of a song that we could secure the rights for and using Super 8mm film to shoot on. This was my first time using Super 8 so it was pretty exciting! We did a video for the song "Radar" by the local band Apollo on Fire. My position in the shoot was DP so Chirs (the director) and I worked together to come up with a great idea for the video and create a storyboard and overheads.
We executed the preproduction of the film wonderfully so the production when extremely smooth. Chris had calculated the length of each shot (plus a few extra seconds to be safe) and figured out that we had enough film to shoot everything we wanted plus extra takes (room for mistakes and just other options). Our group worked as a team to get the set design laid out the way we wanted, lights set up, camera and focus ready and practiced the camera movement before out actor (the lead singer of Apollo on Fire) arrived. The group collaborated on everything, from the best way to accomplish the needed shots down to what equipment needed to be check out, who would pick it up and return, what props we needed to acquire, etcetera. We worked diligently and professionally to accomplish our desired shots. The editing of the project will really be the cherry on top and truly create this fantastic video.
As the DP for the project I was a little nervous about being responsible for shooting the Super 8mm film. What if the film was not loaded correctly and none of the film turned out (AHH!!)? What if the focus was not perfect? Or if the exposure was a little bit off? Thats the more nerve racking thing about shooting on film instead of digital. However, I have to just trust myself and my knowledge of film and know that it will all be okay! :) We will see!
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