MINE youth dance project

Roles

Team Leader

Video Shooting

Quality Control

Storyboarding

Interview

Video Editing

Sound and Visual Effects

Tools

Adobe After Effect

Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Audition

Type

Team of 3

Date

January - April 2018

Contributions

As the team manager, I was in the care of commutating with the interviewee and the youth. Furthermore, my role was to edit out the dance and interview footage in order to make a five minutes narrative out of a forty-minute video. Moreover, besides making a story and editing, I drew storyboards and made mood boards to help us plan our video before shooting. Lastly using adobe audition I cleaned the extra sound from the interview and made a clear sound and synched it to the video.

01 Logline

For a course called Moving Images, we as a team of three had to produce a professional short documentary about a certain client that was given to us. This video is a documentary short film about MINE youth dance project that features Kelly McInnes. Kelly is a contemporary dance artist based in British Columbia Canada, who started the MINE dance projects as individual performances. Later, she was given the opportunity to work with a community-engaged dance, and it got her interested in how people come together to work and engage, therefore she decides to work with the community with MINE. In this video, she shares her experiences and ideas behind the project and what she and the youth have achieved within this project.

02 Process

Working with a client was challenging in this scheme since clients are not always available or are not necessarily willing to volunteer to appear in a film. We had to guarantee the client that the video could be helpful for her future career. As a team, for this project, we interviewed Kelly first to make an engaging narrative for this video. We ordered out questions that could make the answers into a narrative. Later we interviewed Kelly on camera in a dance studio, where we staged the background according to the theme on a one-go shot. However, we felt that it wasn't working well because of the staging and background in the shots; the scene seemed busy, and there was a lot of sound surrounding the studio. Hence we went for a second-day shooting.

We didn't change the interview questions for the second interview, but we changed the background setting and the staging. The concept behind the MINE project is consumerism, fast fashion, and how a piece of cloth can be very precious and essential to people. Therefore we hung a bunch of clothing behind our interviewee to create harmony between shots. Once we realized our second interview shot was working, we went to shoot the youth dancing in the Kensington community center. We filmed them using a still camera on a tripod and another camera utilizing a handheld tripod to follow the youth while dancing to capture their movements better.

We aimed to film the youth being interviewed to make the film more enthusiastic, but none of the youth agreed to do this. Therefore, we tried to find as many exciting b-rolls as possible to make this video enjoyable, grasp the viewer's attention and make a high-quality documentary that can help our client in her future career.

03 Outcome

The outcome was very assertive. The feedback that we got from personages who introduced the client to us from the Vancouver Parks Board was that the video is excellent and later it was published in the Vancouver Parks Board website, and it is now open to the public.

Takeaway

I learned a lot from this project since our option to make a video was narrowed down to a specific client. Therefore, I acquired to come up with a narrative with what I have in hand. I realized that I can't always be creative freely often there are restrictions, and I have to be creative within these limitations. Also, I learned to work with a client. The clients time should have considered, and I learned that it is my responsibility to manage my project in a way that I can do an excellent project while I am not taking much time from the client.