Final Costume
In our research we found that ballet dancers consist of wearing a traditional leotard, tights, skirt and ballet shoes. The appearance of this outfit is very neat and tidy and uniformed. Our ballet dancers, as a character, we wanted them to be quite posh characters with a generally high status so this needed to shine through in the costume.
Street dancers we found out wear baggy clothing, like a tracksuit or something like that; joggers, top and trainers. And again we wanted the outfit to show us a little bit about the character. The street characters we wanted to be quite informal and a lower status to the ballet dancers, so we needed to think about this.
From Research and personal input we finalised our costume designs. We also wanted our costumes to reflect on the characters, so thought about how we could show this through an outfit.
We kept with the traditional dancewear of leotard, skirt and tights, for the ballet dancers, because this was what we found to be the most worn within our research, also from personal input. But we wanted to think about the colours, as this would show the audience the cast’s characters.
We brainstormed colour ideas that we wanted to show purity and a higher status within the character groups. We finally decided on a baby blue, as this was a very pure and soft colour.
When picking our final Street wears outfits we didn’t want everybody to look the same, we wanted them to wear what they liked, but drawn down to a basic outfit. So we chose grey jogging bottoms, trainers and a black tank top. We chose this because in a street lesson and research we found that this was what most dancers wear. We picked grey joggers, as this would be the most typical colour that everybody would have and is quite a dull colour, showing the lower statues and decided on a black tank top to show contrast between the two groups of characters.
When consulting our dancers about costumes we had a few problems but nothing that unsettled us.
Our ballet dancers uniform was still what we wanted: Leotard, skirt, tights and ballet shoes it just wasn’t the colours that we initially wanted. We decided on a blue uniform with pink tights as we thought this would show the purity of the characters, as the colours are soft and calming. But we had to work with black. This wasn’t that bad as it was still very uniformed and neat so the purity could shine through from that. And editing could also show this to a further extent.
Also when asking our street dancers to wear a straight forward pair of joggers, plain top and trainers, they had a few constraints; some had come straight from a ballet class so instead of a top a leotard was worn under the joggers and some did not have trainers. But the baggy, informal look was still there so wasn’t a worry.
These were our final costumes:
Final Location
We had many ideas for where our opening sequence was going to shot. Our first decision was to have both settings which were a studio and the street but we realised that filming in the street wasn't very appropriate and dangerous because of the ongoing traffic within the roads of Essex so it was a big safety issue.
Therefore we still stuck to the same idea but minus the street, this was real shame since it would of set the mood for the theme and genre we was trying portray. On the other hand the studio was more officiant anyway since it was quiet and consisted of the props that we needed which was; a bar, mirrors and flooring. We was lucky enough to film within two real studios since one of the members of our group is a dancer herself and kindly asked her dance school 'Talent' which was the dance school that dances throughout our opening, whether it would be okay to film there ballet and street class within there studio numerous days, which was fine (We also got consent from all the dancers). The studios are located in Shotgate, Essex which was a easy location to travel to. Both studios were similar in the way they both had bars across the mirrors, spacious flat flooring and lighting.
Some of the filming aswell was located within our school 'Beauchamps High School' since we couldn't find anywhere with a long corrider and double dooring so our school was a great place to film a section of our opening. This consisted of brick walls, flooring, lighting, big double doors and a wide corrider, we found that that this scenery gave a more urban style to it because the brick walling kind of relates to the streets with the graffiti etc, giving a great feel to the opening.
Final Music
For this task we had to use music that is not copyrighted. We found this difficult initially but we then told ourselves its a way for us to create our own personal theme tune which could ‘stick’ with those who view it on the website and most of all the examiner. As none of us are familiar with the production of music we received help from various individuals who gave us guidelines as to how to make a song that was above average. As initially we planned to use the song 'Halo' by the Pussycat Dolls, we took inspiration from the song as well as other dance music soundtracks such as 'Is it you' by Cassie and 'Thirsty'. There after we played with many different sounds, found from copyright free sources, and finally got to what we wanted, by composing a sound we were proud of, and happy would 'sync in' with the concept and genre of our opening sequence. Being able to design our own track gave our film production a personal feeling as we worked for everything that has featured on it, all the film, the sound and the editing.
In conclusion, the relationship between film and music or any form of sound is influential and is used in all movie and film productions if not all. Thus does not make it a musical, just using ordinary everyday sound effects. As our opening sequence consists of a few dance scenes, we hope to use more sounds rather than just the song we composed, as music and different sounds could emphasis the dance moves more effectively and with a ‘sharper’ feeling.
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