Anika's Element 2

Moodboard

Production Plan (Script)

(Background music fades in) 

Anika: Hi guys, It’s Anika and you guys are listening to ‘Dancer’s Corner’ where we discuss all things dance.  

(music/jingle) 

Anika: Our opening segment is called dancers wants and needs where I will be talking about beginner dancers wants and needs, so let’s start off with a need: when being a beginner dancer, a trick, from personal experience on how to pick up and retain choreography during a class is to always and I mean always do it full out as many times as possible. If you never do it full out it will never be a part of your muscle memory and instead will lead to you forgetting. A want as a beginner dancer would be to try to refine your movements. Even if you mess up but you have a refined dance quality in your moves, it gives the impression that people know you can dance in a way. It also tells you as a dancer that you pay attention to details which is a key aspect to a dancer’s foundation.  

Anika: Anyways I am welcomed by my fellow dance partner Maeve-Anne! And our main topic discussion is about what made you start dancing?  

Maeve-Anne: Hi my name’s Maeve-Anne. So why’d I start dancing? That’s a good question, my mum actually put me in dance at 5 years old, honestly fell in love with it, and in short, it’s literally a break from reality I can just be myself and the hype energy dancers have is incomparable.  

Anika: Oo, I wish I was put into dance when I was younger but for me I was inspired by dancers all around the world online that encouraged and motivated me to self-teach myself how to dance which gave a me a drive to always become like them in a sense. 

(music/jingle) 

But yea that’s it for today guys see you next time. Thank you for listening and bye. 

(Background music fades out) 

Post Production Edits Sheet

Audio Post Production Edits Sheets 

Project Name: Dancer’s Corner 

Files:  

Main recording Take 1.mp3 

Main recording Take 2.mp.3 

Main recording Take 3.mp.3 

Outro Take 1.mp3 

Maeve-Anne recording Take 1.mp3 

Jingle 1 (magic sound) 

Background Music 1 

Source: Main recording Take 1.mp3 

Main Edits:  

0:00-1:28 Insert background music 

0:00-0:05 Play recording and cut to jingle 

0:26-0:28 Cut stutter 

0:43-0:50 Insert Main recording Take 2 

0:50-1:08 Insert Maeve-Anne recording Take 1 

1:08-1:20 Insert Main recording Take 3  

1:20-1:21 Insert jingle 

1:21-1:28 Insert Outro Take 1 

Further Edits:  

Please add Background Music throughout the whole recording including to fade in, in the intro and fade out in the outro. 

My Passion: The Flow of Movement

When I was younger, I felt almost glued to the screen watching girls similar age as I accomplish a successful career in something that they loved and younger me was memorised at their work ethic, their dedication and almost understood and empathised with them as if I personally knew them. Seeing them continuously learning and growing up to see them getting recognised globally made me feel proud of them; as if I was them.  

The inspiration brewed inside me watching them, I channeled their energy in every flow of movement that tossed and turned in me, with every new move I accomplished and refined gave a rush of adrenaline. Every. Single. Time. It was addictive. The long-lasting emotive impression the dancers left in every performance that made me aspire to be so much that I was sly jealous as I didn’t have the same opportunities that they did. I wish I had that opportunity to be what they were. Being able to perfectly execute choreography and make it better than it was first envisioned, I wanted that. I began that journey of teaching myself at home, despite the consequences I may face of some skills that required a professional to learn I simply didn’t care and was driven through the passion of the art entertainment of performing. This became an obsession of continuously watching the masters of art and being amazed day and night.  

Years went by, and I was deeply saddened when the show ended along with my passion for dance, I still peaked a slight interest here and there but not to the extent I would go to when I was younger. It was sad seeing almost a part of me leave me not finding that same joy as I used to; a heartache. I was more concerned about my friends and the rest of any other growing teenage girl would think about and occupy herself with, once I got a phone.  

Hitting the milestone of turning 18 means that traditionally in the Filipino culture, when a young girl hits that age, it is usually hugely celebrated. As part of the celebration, the debutante (the birthday girl) would need to showcase a talent, whether singing, dancing, etc. It felt only right to dance despite many years of not practicing. My friend and I, who were just as obsessed with dance as I, decided to showcase a new dance routine for my celebration. I remembered any small moments when we were alone together, we rehearsed as much as we could. Even if it was just marking the dance with our hands and arms, we were just as itching just to dance. Small things, such as perfecting and correcting each other when we danced, became a self-satisfactory feeling that glowed in us. When we finally performed the adrenaline rush, empathizing with every moment and the instant gratification of the crowd cheering was a mesmerising feeling. 

That moment of realisation: I was in love. I started to attend dance classes and worked on multiple aspects, and being in a class with people who performed choreography better pushed me to be better and constantly made me adjust to minor little details that made a dance, a performance. I was re-inspired by watching a Korean survival show that involved so many extremely experienced female dancers of all genres, who expressed their passion for dance through every delivery of their performances. The show changed my whole perspective of dance and redefined it as my passion, something I will always love. This inspired me to even audition for my university’s dance competition, and I got in! Falling in love with dance again began to feel like the world chimed together in harmony. Feels like I am living my childhood dream. 

Writing Element

A work of literature that has inspired my work is a book called ‘The art of dance composition’ written by Jenefer Davies. This book devled in to the concepts of creating authentic movement, and created storytelling in the form of expression of dance. From this, this inspired to create my writing my piece based off dancing was a flow of movement that expressed as much conveyed emotions that can single-handily connect to the audience through the motion of moves. The book captures that feeling of dance perfectly that helped me into being able to continuously write about my passion, being dance.

Video Element

Overall, I found this task to be the most enjoyable and the most rewarding one. I loved the way my piece turned out and I did managed to include all of the briefs, such as the camera angles, rule of 180 and non-diegetic sound. When creating this piece I did have to continuously retake scenes because I wanted everything to align on my phone using the grid settings. This helped me better my work as I went along and gave the impression that it was filmed more skillfully and professionally. I did include off-screen sound which was a bit hard for me to include as I wanted to make the sound subtle however I felt like that area could have been stronger. To further improve my video I would have also included dialogue and speech to add another interesting aspect to my video. I also thoroughly enjoyed filming the dance segment as I got to use different angles to shoot the dancing that made it more interesting and played around with the lighting part too. From this task I believe I developed ,my editing, filming and directing skills in comparison to my element 1 filming project.

Audio Element

Incorporating an audio element into my project has helped my editing skills better and has better improved my script making as I don’t love making scripts/ Production plans but I am very happy the way work has turned out. The choice of of ambient music complimented my ‘podcast’ whilst setting the mood of audio piece. I also chose a jingle for the intro and outro for my audio which further devloped my piece to sounding complete. However, I did struggle to record it as I kept making mistakes when speaking or I would speak too quickly or I spoke too slowly to the point it was the time limit for this segment. I did overcome this however by re-recording a few more times and editing over my mistakes to create a much timed and clearer audio. Going ahead, what I would improve about this work is that I could have reduced the opening segment. This would have allowed me to have more time to ask another question, as the ratio of the opening segment was longer than my Q&A section hence I felt like it was more engaging between the two poeple.

Web Content Creation Element

Commentary – I chose the font ‘Libre Baskerville’ as I feel like the font expressed a neat appearance that matches the images of dance pictures that I have chosen. I decided to choose images that had a common theme of darker colours and hues that has dancers usually on a stage or in a spotlight strutting in a pose. I have decided to use these photos as common theme on my moodboard as it portrayed the adrenaline rush of dance in multiple different ways through using pictures of different genres such as ballet, contemporary and hip hop as I believe dance has no restriction and the feeling of dancing is universal feeling that can be shared through anyone and any type of style. The colour scheme for my moodboard was specifically chosen as it depicts the collage of images perfectly as each photo is shared with those colours in the colour pallete.