FIRST DAY OF SHOOTING! On Thursday, me, Jess (ballet dancer) and Joe (lighting director) went into the theatre to begin shooting. Jess brought her ballet outfit and point shoes with her, Joe brought his lighting skills and I brought my planning, storyboarding, last minute shotlist, camera and tripod. As soon as we went into the theatre we were faced with a problem! The theatre is sectioned off into two sections...the seats and the stage, there's a screen that sections the two from one another and when we went in I needed to screen to be moved. Joe called in two caretakers who did the job. First problem gone.
Luckingly there weren't many other problems...minor things like the colour of the lights and angle of the camera caused a problem but this was shortly sorted out, and after an hour and a half of changing light colours, camer angles and shots, we eventually managed to get some brilliant shots. All together I had about an hours worth of footage to sort through, way more than I needed. But more is always better than less.
DAY 2: Friday 21st September
On Friday, i focused on capturing Emmas street dancing shots. We located the shots in a more urbanised area in stark contrast to the ballet dancer shots. Emma was surrounded by brick walls and concrete. I asked Emma to dance at the top of a very slight, 2-3ft high ramp near the edge of a wall so that the camera angle would be slightly lower and I would be able to get a shot of her whole body. As people were constantly walking past Emma repeated her short dance routine which she put together which suited the music nicely. I tried many different interesting angles. I tried a couple canted angles to create a more disoriantated atmosphere, the low angle shots were significant because Emma was the street dancer who is the more aggressive and strong personality, in contrast with the ballet dancer who I shot at higher angles to represent her domination.
After, just over an hour, I had plenty of footage to work with, and also a bruise from falling of a wall...in attempt of creating another interesting shot.
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