In this lesson we focused on editing and getting ourself known with a editing app by using our own draft videos to make a new video/film. The software we used was Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015. We all struggled at first with this software, but as the lesson went on, we all got the gist of the software and can use all of our knowledge to create our video when we come to put all of our clips together. We used videos like the one below to edit and link to another video to create a film.
During this session we focussed on the aspect of sound, that it can influence choreography and camera angles, on the other hand they can all influence one another.
We presented our ideas to the group:
Our style of dance being commercial contemporary, the use of cameras being a phone, handheld video camera and filming camera. Our locations, the first being the top floor of Lucy Tower Car Park in the late evening when it is raining (we will protect the equipment). The second being the platform opposite the library performing a flash-mob and finally a section of pavement near the glory hole.
Expressing the connection between the camera and dancers, creating the movement vocabulary and videoing in slow motion portraying the mist of talc brushing against each limb, this gives a visually creative aspect.
In todays session we worked with different people, not our final project groups. We had a task of using different cameras and exploring in several locations of our choice. Myself, Amelia, Abbie and Sarah worked together using the canon power shot, SX410 Is. We walked around the university campus and chose different locations we thought would be good to explore. We firstly decided to sit on a bench outside The Swan and use the camera to do a close up shot of our hands. We did a small sequence moving our hand forward and backwards and turning them over. When we watched it back and it looked really effective from the angle of the camera. We took inspiriation from one of our weekly readings ‘ Making video dance’ by McPherson,k. It says how we can choose what the audience can see, and it’s a good idea to sometimes focus in on what the audience do not usually look at. We chose the camera to be zoomed in on the hands as the audience don’t usually pay a lot of attention to the hands in a performance, this is often because we cant see them. Other locations we used was the tunnel bridge, experimenting with the sounds and moving our feet around the stones, as well as using the stairs and performing a short basic arm sequence in canon.
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