R+P Post 29: Rehearsals

We had many dance rehearsals and below is one of our first ever sessions in the studio.

Below is another rehearsal in a media classroom when Gift and Thakshana had a free.

To prepare for our test shoot we rehearsed intensely for one week to perfect our dance routine and get it right with everyone in sync and looking somewhat like professional dancers. It took us a few sessions before we got the right moves and remembered the steps correctly.

This is the rehearsal schedule with group 3's sessions highlighted in yellow (our group).

We sourced a lot of YouTube dance videos to inspire our moves including videos from The Fitness Marshall and Matt Steffanina. The Fitness Marshall is great as he takes you through the steps in a tutorial like method. Matt Steffanina also has separate tutorial videos to the usual dance ones.

1MILLION dance studio is a YouTube channel I personally love to keep up to date with. This video is something that I would like our dance routine to look as good as.

For one of our studio sessions we tested our dance routine in the actual lighting we wanted to use such as the red silhouette scene. This helped us to see what it would look like realistically on screen which made us realise that we needed to make our moves more dynamic and out there so that we don't look like bodies just shuffling around. Being silhouetted meant there was out a lot of detail that was visually left out. You could only see our arms and legs moving as well as hair whips if any. It made the dance more boring.