Blog Update

Last week we used both our double lessons on Monday and Tuesday to film the beginning clips which appear in our first storyboard. On the monday David and Andrew were in an exam so it was just me and Vikkie. We filmed the dancing feet which appear at the beginning of the scene and this took some time to perfect it to the image we wanted. We also did the voiceover but when we saw David he said that it was best to record it in the studio not as sound on a camera and we agreed so we scrapped that footage. The next day me Vikkie and David went to the recording studio and recorded the voiceover with me and Vikkie taking turns, seeing who sounds best. To get the right tone, timing and feel we had to record many times and additionally we put the music into the recording so the voiceover and music fits on top, this way we don't have to edit it in and all timing will be to perfection. Also there was a few technical problems so it took time, but we managed to record it to the best quality we could and now have our final piece on CD. This means that we have our voiceover for the start of our opening sequence and we have a couple of shots that fit into the beginning as well.

Asking permission to use music from youtube for our opening scene

10/01/2011

On the 11th jan 2011, we are going to be off site in various different locations doing our filming in different  locations for the different scenes. We will be on site for a short while then for the rest of the lessons we have took as off site work time, as a group we will be travelling around doing as much filming as possible.

Outline of 'Live To Dance'

The opening sequence for 'Live 2 Dance' starts with a black screen. A slow piece of music starts to play and red text zooms in from right saying; 'V-DAY Productions', gets to centre, slows down and then zooms out on left. 'Proudly Presents:' then appears in from top and zooms off the bottom. A shot of feet dancing slowly fades in from black. 'Live 2 Dance', in  graffiti styled text, appears over the top of the dancing feet. After about 10-15 seconds of footage, this clip fades out and a close-up shot of the dancing character appears. With this, the named credits appear of the actor/actress and who they are playing. After all the main characters  credits have gone off screen, the screen will fade to white. After this we begin with the end. The shot opens with the dance group standing, waiting behind closed curtains. The curtains open, the stage is full of bright lights and the music starts to play as soon as the curtains open. The camera then reverses so you see the dance troupe come out onto the stage and begin to dance.  After 20 seconds of the dance, the footage starts to flick and quickly fade in and out. This footage fades to white. The film then goes to footage of the main character from when she first finds herself in trouble and how she decides to fight through it and create the ultimate dance troupe.

Progress I have made towards meeting my second target 14.12.10

My second target was to: Understand how the 4 technical aspects (camera, editing, sound & mise-en-scene) represent different things in different TV extracts effectively, and be able to evaluate them in detail.


I have made progress in meeting my second target because on my second milestone assessment i got a C, which is an improvement from my first E grade and the question was associated around the 4 technical aspects - camera, editing, sound and mise-en-scne and how they represent different things in a particular TV extract. I evaluated them in detail, and from my grade I can see I have improved. Also, every friday we have been doing this task with different Tv extracts, (Friday TV drama analysis) and it has given us good practise with these questions and I now feel more confident and happy in writing a question evaluating camera, editing, sound and mise-en-scene.