R+P Post 29: Rehearsals

Our main priority for the rehearsal week was our dance routine for the chorus of our chosen song and testing lighting. This was because we planned for quick lighting and editing to be an integral part of our music video due to how powerful and fast paced the  instrumentals of the song were. Also many urban music videos and girl groups tend to have some kind of choreography within them.

Our Rehearsal schedule- our group is highlighted yellow

'Don't Kill the fun'- Sevyn Streeter

Because our girl group has to appeal to street/Rnb fans, they thus have to emulate an urban, street with a feminine , classy energy. So we wanted the choreography 

we do to be of the hip hop dance style but with a sassy flair to it, like in the GIFS on the side. 

'BOSS'- Fifth Harmony

 Some of the inspiration behind our dance moves we found on YouTube from workout sessions by 'The Fitness Marshall' and random hip-hop choreography videos. Some examples of the videos we looked at can be found below.

                                                    The fitness Marshall- 'Worth it' workout

'Trap queen'- Matt Steffina Choreography

A short clip from one of our rehearsal sessions

We were also able to book sessions at our school studio and test specific lighting set-ups so that we can save them as memories on the school computer database so that when it came to the shoot day all we'd have to do is switch straight to the memory where all our lighting is already keyed in and then just manually move floor lights and studio lights in the correct positions. 

Thakshana and I testing our Silhouette lighting set-up 

Organizing a rehearsal week helped us prepare for the test shoot and work out if the ideas we had written on paper would work out on camera and if not, made us rethink our ideas before it was too late. Not only that but it helped us realize whether we'd be able to pull of a dance routine as people who've never danced professionally or even casually before.