Dance Video - Inspiration
SLOW OR FAST?
First thoughts for my video
I wasn't sure what mood I want to bring to my audience at first. I guess it is one of the hardest parts of planning your short film or movie. I usually start with soundtrack. Music is part of video that also affects emotions.
I decided to edit fast motion video. To show editing skills of software it is easier to show that in many cuts, fades, jumps, colours, fast and slow motion effects.
MUSIC
I used Kaskade ft. Ilsey - Disarm You (Illenium Remix) which was on Soundcloud.com as royalty free music. I spent a lot of time looking for the right one... Already mixed with some shots and I loved this song. It was pretty long so I remixed it by myself from beginning till the end. For me it was challenging because I do not do a lot of sound editing.
MOVEMENTS
My favourite part of editing is mixing shots with soundtrack. Doing that I can pool attention to my scene. I love to find right movement for specially chosen soundtrack. If it is edited well that it is a bigger chance to set a mood for a viewer.
Translating a three-dimensional art form (dance) into a two-dimensional space is not easy. In my ideal world, dance would largely be filmed with wide (or normal) lenses, and telephoto lenses would be used sparingly to bring the audience in for moments involving facial expressions, details of small movements, and other specialty shots.
Translating a three-dimensional art form (dance) into a two-dimensional space is not easy. In my ideal world, dance would largely be filmed with wide (or normal) lenses, and telephoto lenses would be used sparingly to bring the audience in for moments involving facial expressions, details of small movements, and other specialty shots.
Visual continuity is still very important in dance film, otherwise the movement disorients the viewer. Based on conversations with other editors, it seems that some are unable to follow the storyline contained in the movement of a dance piece; they erroneously conclude that because they only see the dance as a series of unrelated movements, that’s how audience members will see it.
If the edit is made without a sense of conveying the storytelling inherent in the dance movement, the audience will mentally struggle to assemble a narrative based on visual fragments, and will often feel dissatisfied. So I made mine really organised. I love to edit a lot but in the same time keeping all details and chronological story.
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