Directing our Performers
Prior to shooting the video, we gave our performers a brief outline of the day and the performance they would need to give through Facebook & via the phone. We instructed them to come prepared with various contrasting dramatic dance motifs that show them in distress and crazed. This choreography consisted of jeté leaps, parallel pirouettes, head throws, leg flicks, arm rotations, body rippling, body popping and arm jabs. Their routines consisted of unison and canon motifs and intertwining movements that provided angularity to the choreography.
Being a professional ballet dancer (left), with trained experience of the combination between dance and camera-work, I was able to spontaneously choreograph some sequences with the dancers in the studio. This enabled Josh & I to experiment with ideas on-the-spot and come up with new effective dance motifs. An example of a motif I choreographed during the shoot consisted of dancer 1 rotating her hips into a backbend and throwing her arms backward whilst holding a chain between her hands, with a head flick allowing the fan to blow her hair backwards (above right).
Caption: Me in the Nutcracker Ballet 2009
Knowing that all the audio will be removed from the shots during editing, we were able to shout over the music track playing in the studio to direct them of their positioning, facial expression and spacing as we were filming. Prior to the shoot, Josh & I allocated sequences that we would direct and who would shoot. This way, there was no unnecessary deciding in the studio as we worked to a strict schedule of 'who operates what'.
Below are various pictures that Josh & I captured yesterday whilst shooting the white studio sequences:
Caption: Setting up our equipment
Caption: Setting up our first shot - testing lighting and smoke machine
Caption: One of our dancers beginning her first shot in the perspex case
Caption: Box entrapment shots
Caption: Me filming close ups
Caption: Me filming high angle/bird's eye view shots
Caption: Our two dancers performing lyric shots
Caption: One of our dancer's performing her solo motifs
Caption: Josh filming high angle shots of our dancers performing
Caption: High angle red cloth shots
Caption: Both dancers performing robotic dance sequence
Caption: Ladder and fan blowing sequence
Caption: Possible photos that will merge for our DigiPack CD cover collage
Caption: Outside the studio
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