Creating My Script

   Today I began to think about what I want to say in my voice over. I want to be inspirational and be from the dancers perspective. I want her to tell the audience her story of how she made it as a professional dancer. I want to add some knowledge about dance, for example facts and percentages about how many dancers actually make a living as a professional. This will let the audience acknowledge how difficult it is to become a dancer. This movie is a story that is ment to inspire people. I want it to seem like it is real and based on a true story to make viewers connect too the main character and her story. If it sounds realistic then it will be more likely to inspire more people. I have already shown you my rough draft of the first few smetances in an earlier post, so hopefully you already have a little idea of the introduction. I am having issues of thinking of what to add and where I am going to add the facts. The voice over is what is going to bring the entire video together so people know what the movie is going to be about, without it the movie would just be a clump of dance videos placed together.
   My script needs to be intriguing so that people want to continue watching. The opening of a movie is one of the most important parts because, if it is bad or boring people wont want to continue watching much more of the movie. However I chose to word my script I need to make sure it is extremely powerful and attention grabbing. After the script is finished and I start recording the voice over I need to make sure I speak with passion and don't sound boring, becuase talking is a huge part in making the voice over great. Since I am making the script in first person I need to act like I am the dancer speaking to her audience, I hope by thinking this way I can perfect my video. The script is the most important part of my movie, so I need to spend the majority of what time I have left to perfect it.

Editing Day 2

   I continued editing last night. I made a lot of progress and am about 1:30 minutes into my opening. I am not sure how long I am going to make it, but I think it is a good length. I asked my friend to view it to give me feedback, there were some things that she did not understand that I need to change and make clearer. I need to get more viewpoints from different people so that I know that people understand the concept of my video. I changed a the order of many of the videos from how I previously placed them the 1st time I edited. I tried to place the videos to look like the dancer is progressively getting better the more she dances. At the end she is wearing a full ballerina outfit and doing more intricate dance moves. I am going to try to explain the dancers  progression in my voice over to make it clear to viewers.
   I rewatched the opening scene of the blind side and there were multiple moments that froze on a picture of a football player before continuing the clip. I like the idea of freezing multiple images instead of just one at the end. I also liked how Sandra Bullock used the title of the movie when she was explaining part of the game in her voice over. I am considering putting the title of my movie as part of my voice over if I can make it flow and sound good. I need to write more of my script so that I can record the audio and place it in my video. After I do that I will edit the video clips to flow with the voice over nicer. When I asked my friend for feedback she suggested that I get rid of the darker footage because it is too difficult to see. I agreed with her but I really like the footage so I tried to find an editing app to lighten the video. I downloaded about 5 different video editig apps and unfourtunatly none of them helped make the video much lighter. I am going to try to find a way to lighten them, but if I am unsuccessful I will take the videos out of my opening. I also thought it was a good idea to fade out to a black screen at the end of the scene. I thought this looked nice, I am thinking of possibly saying my final words as the screen goes black. I will have to see how it looks after I add the voice over.