Evaluation Of Final Filming

During out final filming session for out music video both Nat and I found that there where many issues that needed to be resolved before the video could be filmed.

• Before filming we had issues of costume for our female dancer. Our male dancer was asked to bring a leotard to ensure that there where no limitations in terms of the routine; with a heavy focus on lifts and turns that helped the music video stand out. The main issue was having the having the bottom half of the female dancer covered modestly. With no leotard we had to improvise, shorts where made by cutting full length leggings (with car keys) to make sure that the appearance of the dancer appeared professional without limiting the routine.

• Our second issue, was that the connecting part of our tripod was not attached. This means that we where unable to film using the piece of equipment. Initially the filming quality for the music video was poor as both Nat and I had experience with only a tripod to use. Unsteady angles and shadows meant that we were unable to get the professional aesthetic that we needed. However, this was resolved via experimentation and the image on camera. From this we where able to gather sufficient footage and ensured that what we had created a good video.

Evaluation Of Filming

When filming we were presented with a number of issues which made it difficult for us to get all the footage we needed. Firstly, the tripod equipment we took with us from school was broken, and therefore we had to borrow the professional tripod from 151 studios. This did work out in our favour due to the tripod being of excellent quality, meaning some of the footage we produced was better than it would have been with the basic equipment we took with us.
The second problem we had to overcome was shadows. Due to having three large filter lights it came increasingly difficult to get the right size shadow, and keep the continuity of the studio infinity walls the same at all times. We played around with the lights height and position so that we could produce the best overall aesthetic in our opinion.
A further problem we had to face was the size of the space we booked out. The dancers were struggling to complete the whole dance as the space was too small. This meant we lost the fluency of the dance in places which decreased the professionalism. The final problem which occured was the amount of time we had and the way in which we utilised it. We needed our dancers and our artist to look the part which unfortunately took longer than we were expecting. As well as this, we also had to go through the health and safety with the owner of the studio which took the, and we had to set up the studio ourselves. The time we had to film meant that we were cutting it fine to film all the footage we needed. unfortunately, we didn't capture as much as we had hoped from both the artist and the dancers which means that in post production, repetition of some shots will occur for our draft.

Contemporary Dance

Contemporary dance is a broad category of dance, and technique styles such as ballet is a part of it. We decided to chose this style of dance for our music video, as we believe a duet dance of a male and female consists of many emotions, providing you have high level dancers. The dancers we have chosen to perform throughout our video both train and compete in high level dance competitions.

Contemporary ballet is a genre of dance which includes elements of both classical and modern dance. This type of dance also includes pointe dance, which is a shoe containing a block at the end, to able dancers to extend their legs fully on tip toes within routines. Balletic movements such as lifts are also something commonly used throughout dances of this style, this is something we believe will make our video more aesthetically gripping, as well as more passionate. This therefore means that our camera angles are something to consider in depth.

Although Merce Cunningham's theory (the first professional choreographer of contemporary dance) revolved solely around the techniques and art of the dance, he believed a convention of dance shouldn't be narrative. To this day contemporary dance has been shaped around lyrical narratives, and therefore this is now a modern convention. In our opinion we believe that this is something which could make or break our video, and we are willing to firstly take this risk and build our idea upon the dance, and if it doesn't work change the way in which we present it via camera angles.

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