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My project brief 3 (Media Portrait) was entitled Dance. It features my friend Mikaela Schreauder who is a passionate dancer and is currently studying it professionally. I wanted to document the process of a dancers daily life. Their preparation, rehearsals, getting ready with makeup, hair, costumes and preforming. I also wanted to look at how dance can be such a strong focal point in someone’s life. I tried to do this by using footage of Mikaela dancing at various locations around Melbourne. This was done to depict the fact that is someone is a dancer it is something they are committed to, they take it everywhere with them and are constantly required to practice in order to maintain such high standards. I believe the most successful element of my piece was the subject matter. Dancing is beautiful and entertaining in itself and is automatically engaging to the audience. The least successful element of the piece is ……. The thing I found most problematic was definitely sourcing stock footage. I struggled to find footage that was free for public use, that didn’t want you to pay and that weren’t watermarked. I also struggled to work out how to actually download footage when I sourced something of use. I also found it really difficult to find relevant material that connected with my piece. I would have liked to find a way to create movement with the images such as a zoom, that would have made for a more fluent piece with constant movement and less jarring. In making the piece I had to learn to use the colour correction and exposure effects to alter the footage. I also learned how to overlap 2 pieces and change the opacity.