Equipment for Performance Shoot 1 - Instruments;

A large amount of forward planning is required to ensure that the performance shooting went as smoothly as possible. We had a lot to think about, and we ensured that we had all bases covered by the time we reached the unit to shoot.

The first step is to look at the instruments that the band themselves will be playing. The biggest aspect here is mainly colours, but also general shape - certain types of guitar, such as a BC Rich or a Gibson Flying V, would not suit our genre or theme of video (the above two guitars are associated heavily with the Metal genre of music). Also, we do know a friend of ours with a bright pink and white bass guitar, but it was swiftly decided that this would not fit at all, especially considering the desaturation that may well occur in the editing stage.

Below is the list of instruments we settled on:

Guitarist - Electric Guitar
- Les Paul Standard
- Tobacco Sunburst

Bassist - Fretted Electric Bass
- Fender P Copy
- Woodburst

Drummer - 9 piece drumkit
- (All Silver) Bass, Snare, 2 high toms, floor tom, hi hat, ride and 2 crash symbols.
- Black Bass Cap

The guitar and bass will be matched together nicely by their sunburst appearance, and the sunburst scheme will show up nicely. The drum-kit being silver helps us in two ways: firstly, it helps reflect light, which improves the image quality, and also fits with the greys, whites and blacks purveying in the video, mainly from the unit and surroundings themselves. We took careful consideration into the choice of instruments and equipment so that it matched carefully into the house style and didn't look out of place - for example, Matt Ballard has his own bass guitar, but it was a bright honey yellow colour, which wouldn't have fitted into the house style of the colours of the other instruments as well as the general colour scheme and feel of the video, so we plan on using Jacob Peeling's bass guitar instead, as it has a darker sunburst colouring. We tried to avoid bright colours, with the only bright colour on display being the red of Michael's guitar amplifier. Otherwise, the other instruments matched each other - most of the other amps were black and silver, with the drumkit being also silver, and the two guitars matching each other in dark sunburst colours.

More to come...