Box Office

      The genre of our film is dance. Dance films have been popular since the 70s when the film ‘Saturday night fever’ was released in 1997 earning a worldwide lifetime gross of $237,113,184. In 2006 the film ‘Step up’ with a production budget of $12 million made $20,659,573 in its opening weekend and worldwide gross of $114,194,847 in 2,647 theatres. The film was such a success Buena Vista made a sequel in 2008 ‘Step up 2 the streets’ bringing in $18,908,826 in its opening weekend and a worldwide gross of $148,172,291 at 2,528 theatres. In 2008 Buena Vista also made the dance musical ‘High school Musical 3’ with a production budget of $11 million, it was released in 3,626 theatres with a worldwide gross of $223,871,675. The genre is popular at the moment, with two of the most popular films of the year 'Step up 2' and 'High School Musical 3' being dance.

Preliminary Task

To give us camera experience before we begin to shoot our actual project we did a preliminary task. This involved filming a conversation between 2 or more people. We had to include someone walking through a door and shots from a variety of angles. Though the story of this short clip is somewhat insignificant, it is the filming from different angles, keeping to the 180 degree rule and the continuity of the piece that we focussed on.

The good aspects of our film was the continuity throughout, all the scenes flowed smoothly together also.  Even though the acting was not a focal point we still got the main angle shots into the clip. With all the smoothly flowing scenes and the angles which had been shot it made the clip short but aesthetically pleasing to the voyeurs.

However, the sound in some parts of the short film were barely audible. This may have caused confusion over the story line as some vital speech could not be heard. Though only a short film, the story could have been slightly more complex and interesting. This would have been accomplished if we had created a more unusual situation to shoot.

Atmosperic Music for Piece

From researching films of the dance genre i have found that they often use a fusion of music as well as a fusion of dance styles. While thinking about the music we could stage our opening sequence to, I have come up with the idea of mixing classical and hip hop music. Here is one example -

Step Up - Opening Sequence

I think that the mood of these two music pieces would work well with the overall idea of our opening-

Scala - Palladio

T-Pain - Church