FILMING THE PIANO

As our chosen song is very musical and rich in texture we felt that it would be necessary to accentuate some of the individual instruments such as the saxophone (through the blow up sax), the drums (through the lollipop drum, foot tapping and hand clicking), the trumpet (through a plastic and colourful child's trumpet), the guitar (through blow up guitars) and the piano chords (through an electronic piano).

In order to make our music video look as professional as possible, i felt that it was necessary to learn the  actual chords of the music. They were pretty simple, so it didn't take too long to learnt. Here is a picture of the chords...

I filmed the piano scenes from a high angle, and ensured that only the keys were on show, nothing else. I had to film a couple of times as i wanted to have the motif exactly in time with the music from the song. Here is how I filmed it...

This photo depicts how I used auto record.
This involved me playing the piano and
watching myself do so whilst the camera
separately was recording this.

This photo illustrates how, for some shots,
I played the piano whilst watching myself
do so through the camera lens. This
procedure was much more difficult