Filming & Editing

Filming and Editing

Davey Poremba provided tips and knowledge on filming and editing skills through four sessions leading up to the project performance. These sessions were in kind from Newcastle College. 

Story Board 

Davey suggested that I should plan my film sets for order and organisation. This will prevent wasting time on going back to a set. This was very helpful and quickened my filming process.

Spoken Word 

Davey kindly recorded Leah with his professional audio equipment for my spoken word within his studio. This made my spoken word on my dance film high quality and smooth.

Script - Spoken by company dancer, Leah Wells. This script aims to educate the audience on some facts they might know about OCD therefore the website (OCDUK, 2021) supports this script.

OCD affects around 1.2% of the population

Around 12 people in every one thousand

Many people think OCD is the need to align everything perfectly

Or the need to obsessively wash your hands

But the types of OCD are endless

Symptoms of OCD manifest in many different ways

Behaviours and thoughts vary from person to person

It could be the overturning of taps to relief the thought of causing a flood,

Or the ritual of switching a light four times to prevent anything bad happening

However, OCD is not always visual. It can be the prolonged thinking about a question or theme that is unproductive.

Or the intrusion of unwanted thoughts such as magical thinking. For example, stepping on a crack can cause hard to loved ones.

OCD could be the fear of leaving straighteners switched so taking a picture will ease the feeling of guilt and irresponsibility.

OCD can cause the feeling of internal as well as external uncleanliness triggered from inmate objects, people, or situations.

People with OCD understand their obsessive thoughts are not logical and try to disregard them, but OCD makes it difficult to resist an act of compulsion.

Filming - experimenting with angles

 

Filming Equipment - To enhance the professionalism of my dance film

Editing - I used Film Forth to edit my dance film. It was very simple to use and navigate. Davey suggested tips on smoothing transitions between clips.

I watched many tutorials and online videos to improve my editing skills.