The Treated DanceAlive! Musical Segment (draft)

After combining the outtakes and a few key shots and interview, i managed to achieve this composition to almost make up a whole chapter to summarize DanceAlive 2007. It was very tricky to choose which shots to place and which to discard. It was a pity i could not put many other shots into the timeline due to time constraint and also because many of them doesn't seem to 'belong'.

More write-ups pending regarding this post. Watch this space.

Motion Typeface - Names

The hovering typeface idea was chosen so as to add a more visual appealing element towards the interviewees. It's a style i plan to adopt for the whole project.


The above green dots are motion keyframes which signify the points of which the text will move/hover from one point to another. Each point closely follows where ever the human head is and thus the text will look like it is 'following' the person being interviewed. The keyframes are marked within every moving frame within that footage so that it follows accurately.


Using Apple Motion - DanceAlive Title

This spark effect was done using Apple Motion and acts as a highlight and a backing for the text above it. The text was animated in Apple Livetype which was later incorporated after compositing the spark effect onto the footage.


The interface of Apple Motion. The footage is later composited below the spark effect and then later sent back to Final Cut Pro timeline. It was my first time experimenting with Apple motion and it was nice to know how convenient it was that the Final Cut Studio softwares work seamlessly with each other. Sweet stuff.

Random DanceAlive! Musical Outtakes (With bad sound quality)

Here are a bunch of scenes that i have chosen out of the library to be potential shots for a little montage on the DanceAlive! Musical segment. I put them together so as to try to identify a feel and generate possible ideas.

Not alot of shooting have been done during this Musical thus it will be a tricky part to do.

DanceAlive! Musical Performance Cut

Here is the performance cut of the Lyrical Hip-Hop & Funk routines that i plan to include right after the Musical Segment of the project. It is not the full routine for each clip as i only decided to showcase the better part of each performance.

I chose the singing part of the Lyrical item even though there was minimal dancing because of the different vibe of of performance coming from this piece. We have never seen ourselves dancing to this kind of tune and doing jazz steps. It was also unique to be able to dance behind a singer, thus i thought that choosing that part of the lyrical hip-hop item would showcase a different side of FB.

I also chose 'Main Vein' part of the Funk item because it was the part the fuses Locking & Popping together. I somehow felt that the part of the dance looks harmonious despite differnt styles, different steps and different costumes.

Excerpts taken from official DVD copies of DanceAlive! 2007.

Credits:

Lyrical Hip-Hop
Choreographer : Ryan Tan (O-School)
Singer : Izyan
Actress : Rene Tan

Funk
Choreographers :
Locking - Ian Poh aka Chunky (Fbodz)
Popping - Ben Koh aka Psyk (O-School)

New Locking Demo For Style Talk - Locking

Here is a demonstration of a Locking routine that i plan to include right after the commentary. This will give the user a view on how the style is like during a performance. This is a recent show during the NYP open house. The response for the show was quite good. Thus encouraged me further into putting this up.

Style Talk - Locking (Updated)

Based on Miss Irene Lim's last feedback on this segment, she commented that my commentary and documentary should include:

1. More visuals to support the commentary
- Thus i have to find and source for more authentic historical clips to support my whole chunk of content for the whole talk on the history of locking.
- More visuals of fbodz people in action

2. More close ups
- more close up shots of dancing. duh

Thus added heavily on that portion and thanks to Gemini for the footages.

I wanted very much this segment to be a understanding/learning point for the viewers. In a way that they can understand the style. If you have noticed i did not go very detailed into explaining the dance and i avoided alot of topics because as Miss Irene Lim mentioned, audience attention is important. Thus i figured they just have to absorb what they want to know.

A New Intro Is Born!

On my last meeting with Miss Irene Lim, my supervisor, she feed backed to me that my original Intro segment (containing shoutouts from across the globe) wouldn't appeal too much to general audience. Reason being that the layman will not be able to understand and absorb the content. She has suggested that the starting should be impactful so as to capture the attention of the general viewer.

Hence i considered her comments heavily and drafted out a new arrangement of the intro using previously used footage. The treatment and the feel is now different.

In order to achieve a more 'grungy' style.. i designed a few borders and splats that might help to make the shots look more 'street'.