Dance for Camera - Chandelier

For my piece i really struggled what song i was going to choose and what motif and theme I would use for my piece. After long thought and consideration i decided to chose the song Chandelier by SIA. The reason i chose this was because her original ideology behind the song was of a similar motif that i wanted to portray through dance; this theme was drug and alcohol abuse.

Below is my story board that i used to help me guide me through the dance and the shots. Deciding what camera angles you use is vital because it can connate and dennotate different emotions and can put the audiences into the action but from different perspectives, this can alter the way an audience may respond to a media text.

INSERT STORY BOARD

I wanted to use one shot to create my dance, i wanted to have a feel on continuation. I did this to link with the motif, as the path of destruction (drugs) is a continuous sequence that is hard to break. So by having broken scenes i didn't think this would of been as effective.

Here is my video for my dance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5QW8vjCaII

As you can see i have changed the whole exposure of the video this is to change the audiences outlook on it, I want them to feel like they have emerged into the world of this girl, who's mind is running free on drugs.



Strengths and Weaknesses

I felt that the dance and choreography worked well together with the motif. I felt it had been well thought out with lots of choreographic devices involved these included such things as: travel, turn, retrograde, repetition. This helped engage the audiences thought process and keeps there eyes interested, as the human brain likes to watch things repeated.


If I were to do this task again I would do clearer close-up shots of her face where she would be portraying a 'fake image' facial expression, this would help get the emotion and motif of the piece across to the audience. Also this would have boosted the whole piece up to make it more eye-capturing. This could have only occurred with a shot change meaning that it could not be filmed in one continuous shot.


I liked where I set my dance as the perfect ambient lighting was created which made a distorted shadow, which I wanted especially in my short film as I wanted the sense of 2 people in 1 body. 1 personality of this person is the innocent girl the other is the drug invading her mind and bodies system slowing destroying the soul.