Filming the Warm Ups | Lesson 4

Last lesson we finished filming the talking part of the video, so this lesson we filmed the second part which is the actual warm ups. We made sure to film the long warm ups first and then the short ones as the most important thing that needed to be filmed were the long warm ups. Once we filmed all the warm ups through completely, we decided to film them once more to make sure we get good footage of the warm ups. This means we have more footage to work with when editing the video which means we won't need to film anymore for it.

Before we filmed the warm ups, we wanted to work out the scale that we would use in the warm up. We decided to film the scale on the camera, so we could put that in the background of our video. We found the scale of C, and started filming but realised that it didn't sound very good. We then asked our teacher if she could do the scale for us on the keyboard in the room and she agreed.

She played the scale of C while I recorded it on my phone through the voice recording app, and Amelia recorded it on the camera. We filmed on both so we could use the voice recording when doing the warm up, and also so we can add the music over the top when editing it. This helped us as we knew what to sing along to, and when the video is edited the tune of the scale will be clear and easy to follow.

We filmed the first warm up where we hummed along with the scale of C. We filmed it a few times before deciding that we were happy with what we had recorded. We then filmed the second warm up where we sung 'Moh' along with the scale of C. We also filmed that a few times before deciding we were happy with the footage. The quick warm ups were the next to be filmed, and we made sure to film them a few times to vary the footage. This is so we have more footage to decide on when editing the video.

Once all the warms ups were filmed, we filmed them through once more just to make sure we have enough footage of them. By the time we finished filming it was nearly the end of the lesson so we decided to look through our footage to make sure we had everything filmed.