Kill It Kid Edit Research

Having reviewed the footage we shot of 'Kill It Kid' live at Komedia I've started to think about the way me and my co editor, Harry Symes, can cut it together.

Firstly we've decided to take a song the band have recorded in a studio and piece together a music video using the footage we took of them performing live. This wasn't our initial idea or preference. We wanted to do a live music piece, but there was audio recording problems on the night and after listening back to the recordings we immediately realised we couldn't use any of them. Its a shame but we are going to make the best out of this change of direction.

I've been looking through music videos that use the same technique as we are about to adopt to try and get some ideas/inspiration.

This video is exactly what I picture when this sort of music video comes to mind. I did enjoy watching it but I found that in some parts the footage is so disjointed from the music that it can be a bit jarring.

I really like the way this video has been produced. It uses the footage of the track being performed live and manages to splice in some of the footage of the rest of the gig. I think it works really well, the footage of them playing the track live gives the piece a back bone whilst the footage of the rest of the gig makes the performance more exciting. This is definelty a technique we will be using for our edit. I really like the idea of focusing on one song whilst still getting the most of all the footage we shot across the gig. The main decision now is which song was filmed the best so we know which to ask the band for.

Preproduction of My Retake

For my product production retake four members of my class and I will be filming 'Kill It Kid' live at 'Komedia'.

'Kill It Kid' are a band from Bath and have been described as a blues, rock and soul group. They have attracted quite a bit of national attention with NME rating their debut album 8 out of 10.

I have prepared for the upcoming shoot by familiarising myself with the 'Kill It Kid' material available online.

Here is a music video for their up and coming single, 'Pray on me':

Komedia is the venue in which we will be filming 'Kill It Kid'. Komedia Is a small chain of venues that put on stand up comedy, theatre and live music shows.

As you can see from the image, Komedia is a relitively large venue for bath, especially since it has balcony that seats around 100 people and can be seen at the top this picture.

When the balcony is open to the

public the venues capacity is around 600.

I did a rece of the venue and spoke to Komedia's technical adviser who discussed with me the possibility of rigging a camera to the lighting rig and also ran through with me the areas in which it would be best to set up static cameras. He also informed me that it would be highly unlikely that the balcony would be open so my group could set up a camera up there for a wide angle shot.