I was asked to film a live video for a new tune by Emma Heeney, the brief being to keep it a relatively simple performance piece. Having brought a couple of DSLR’s with the intention of a multi-camera shoot, I ended up opting for a single Canon 5Diii coupled with the 24-70mm f2.8 II for the entire video. I felt the tone of the song lended itself more to a dreamy floating hand-held style rather than a static one. Also the thought of capturing twice the amount of footage didn’t appeal, given I had set myself the challenge of completing the entire video in the one session.

Three full performance takes were completed and a fourth specifically for cut-aways to be edited in later Lighting was all natural through a window facing the performers and the audio was captured via a Zoom H4n placed on a tripod in front of Emma. After deciding on the main master shot to be used, the cutaways were inserted during the editing process using Adobe Premiere CS6.

Thankfully each take was consistant enough so I could use small visual sections from different parts to overly without too many sync issues. All-in-all the whole clip was set-up, shot, edited and uploaded to YouTube in 5hrs.