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.