Strobe Dance Clips-Version 1

This is our first cut of our dance scene that we filmed. We combined the video with a sound track we composed, to try to match dance/club genre of the scene.
I am very pleased with the overall look of the first cut and I believe it will fit in very well with the other scenes.

Ident Ideas

One of our first ident names we came up with was "Johnson Productions" as Molly and I, coninsidently have the surname Johnson, this seemed fitting.
We created the Ident in Motion, and we particularly liked the spherical movement of the animation
I created another, under the title "solar edge". I liked the way that the movement of the circles make the overall effect more professional.

Filming Day 1

We began our filming with the second scene in our piece, this was the party scene. We wanted to achieve a club like feel and so we kept lighting to a minimum. however we did use key lights that we constantly changed from red to blue. We also used a strobe and laser to add greater visual effects to the shoot.

We had 15 extras including our three main characters (the woman on the beach; the friend and the unknown man) We positioned one camera on a dolly, and we used one handheld. For the handheld camera, the key was to allow the viewer to feel as if they were part of the crowd. it was very challenging trying to coordinate every one in the scene

After shooting, we found that the film from the camera on the dolly, was overall less in focus and was more distant which showed that there weren't that many people present, when we actually wanted to make it look like there were 30+. We mostly used shots from the hand held camera as they gave a more intimate, close up feel.
These are some screen grabs from our film:

Dance Scene Inspiration

We have been trying to find inspiration for our dance scene. This scene from skins incorporates all of the elements we want to employ:

• A claustrophobic environment - through people dancing and intermingling together Saturated colours, most importantly reds and blues 
• Moments of clarity as characters are introduced, e.g. the continued shots of effy dancing - highlighting her presence = what we want to do with our key characters. 
• The use of strobe - again creating a chaotic environ 
• Slow-motion used, producing an alien environment

Light Testing

We made a short film in groups of four to learn how to use light and to achieve the best shooting angles. In the first scene we took advantage of natural light available tot us. Whilst in the second scene  used a key light and a fill light to achieve chiaroscuro in the shot.

Music

We were looking for deep house music for the party scene. knowing this we found a few tracks that we thought would suit and match the type of feeling we wanted to achieve We felt this song would suit our party scene very well.

This is another darker house beat we thought would go well with the 'sense of foreboding' we wanted to achieve in our scene.

Here is a dance beat from the different genre of music - drum and bass.

Animatic

This is the animatic we made of the "STROBE" storyboard. Using iMovie, we used the Ken Burns effect in slowly panning and zooming out of certain shots.
this works especially well in showing the main frame of the opening, incorporating all the key shots

Storyboard

Font Ideas

We created a title using motion. We chose to work with the title 'Strobe', and made it flash across the screen in a flashing glowing font. Although we made this clip very fast - I think it is relatively easy to see the word in the short time, and because of its bright, neon colouring it has the effect of the word burning in your mind.



We then tried a second version with the letters flashing on individually. this title sequence lasted longer however we were less keen on it