Revision Plan

I am generally happy with the way my project turned out, but it isn’t exactly the way I visualized it, and I would like to change it up a bit. My biggest issue is with my footage. I had to rush to get all of my footage because I was going home that weekend, and Grace and I had very little time to meet. There are two different sides to my story: the past, represented with yellow, and the present, represented with black and blue.  My entire project is shot in the same room, which is somewhat dark and makes Grace look a greyish, washed-out color. I do have plans to use the color correcting features to remedy this, but I still want to create more distinction visually between the two stories. For the yellow parts of the project, I would like to get footage of Grace dancing outside in the sun, especially since I use the sun as a symbol for yellow and the happiness that I associate with it. The footage that I currently have I think works well for the black and blue parts of the story. I would even like to put this footage in black and white and see how that translates.

I would also like to experiment a bit more with sound. I think that soft ballet music in the background might be nice. Again, I would like to have a prettier song in the beginning and a darker song in the end. I would also like to experiment with sound effects that make it sound like we’re in a dance studio, such as the sound of Grace landing on the floor from of a jump, or the chatter of girls in dance class. Some of this may be as simple as using the ambient sound form the video clip. I am not dead set on this idea because I think sound might take away from the emotion that the silence creates, but I will experiment with it.