Evaluating Dance Edit 2

Here is my second attempt at making a dance edit:



I felt like this piece was much more successful because it followed the dance all the way through with a much better pace and a better sense if story. This is because I learnt from the mistakes I had made previously in the first edit and therefore instead of bombarding my audience with lots of fancy effects I instead made it more simplistic so that the main focus was on the dance and therefore this lets the audience follow the dancers story a lot more. I also chose to have a set of establishing shots before the dance actually began which allowed me to build up to it and introduce the dancers and the location first. This is what gave it the greatest sense of story because it used film techniques such as the establishing shots.

I also really think that the colour correction was a big part in making this successful. It just draws all the shots together and therefore creates a much better flow. This helps the continuity allowing me to get away with many different shots because it still looks like it was shot at the same time and place with the same settings. When colour correcting I focused on trying to achieve a good flesh tone on the dancers which I feel like I have done however it is a skill which gets better with practise so I feel like I haven't mastered it yet but I have made a drastic improvement on this edit.

I also am much happier with the music and the pace of this edit because it all works together much better. With the first edit I just put a track on at the end and tried to make it fit which meant it inevitably didn't. However with this edit I chose a song right at the beginning and I think the song choice was much more fitting anyway because it was softer and more acoustic than the last. As I edited I was conscious through out of trying to get the pace of the edit to match the pace of the song as now I knew how important this was. I also knew that there was almost what you would call a drop in this song where the pace picked up so in the edit I made this match by slowing a lot of the footage down slightly which came before this and then when the pace of the music picked up I put the footage back to real time in the edit so that the dancers seemed to speed up too. This made it all work together a lot nicer.

I feel overall this edit is a lot more successful in terms of continuity however part of me is sad that I have lost the interest which I had in edit 1 through effecting the opacity and overlaying the footage. I may try experimenting with putting some of these effects back in but instead of not having a purpose I will use them as a tool to help the drop of the music become more visual by adding these effects when the pace has picked up. If this adds to the piece I will keep it that way if not I will take it away and use this edit as my final.