Final Ideas for our Dance Film/Pitch

After talking about our production design ideas, we agreed as a group that we wanted our film to reflect the lighting and minimalistic style of Pas de Deux, because we didn't want to reflect the message we were trying to portray literally. We also felt that the lighting style would contribute to the mood we wanted for our film as the film is all to do with hidden identity, or hidden parts of a personality.

Also, we also decided that our sound design should reflect the sound design in Rosas Danst Rosas, as we really liked that attitude, and as our film is intending to have very specific and deliberate movements, to be able to hear that in a minimalistic way and focus in on that will hopefully draw attention on the dancer themselves and the movements they create.

In preparation for our pitch, we aimed to have all of our production pack together in order to get it signed off quickly and allow us to start organising the shoot day as quickly as possible. Shahid and Tom had already decided that they respectively wanted to be the Cinematographer and Camera Operator, as well as handling the colour grading and the editing. I took on the role as the director, and co-producer with Tom. I also wanted to do the sound design for this project as I had quite a good idea in mind for it. 

So with that all sorted, I went about making a shot list based on my vision for the film, which Shahid then did a beautiful storyboard for. I also wrote the treatment for the film and synopsis, whilst Tom did the risk assessment and also set about creating a google doc with tabs that allowed us all to see our scheduling, contact details, budgeting etc.

The main thing about the structure of the film I would say I wanted to get across is the progression throughout the film from being controlled and restricted to being totally free. I want to try and work with the dancer that we get in order to get that message across. In my shot list I have told it in a very narrative based way, however due to the nature of the dance it's very possible it will end up as something completely away from that.

Our pitch went very well, and we got plenty of compliments on our organisation. I used some photographs to reference what the lighting was going to be like, and they seemed to be quite optimistic about the film in general.