DV Intro

Intro [example]

You will film your intro like the example (first 10 seconds) and you will be holding the camera with steady hands/arms while you first film the following sequences of your dancer. Feel free to add additional shots and more cuts; the list below is the minimum requirements:

Shooting/Editing [Angela's example] [Raymond's example]

1. An establishing shot (extreme wide shot) of your dancer [~2 seconds]
2. Wide shot showing head to toe [~2 or 3 seconds]
3. Low angle medium shot vertical pan (tilt the camera slowly upward starting from their feet to their head but do not pan higher than the head and don't include a lot of space above their head); the shot must be smooth and steady [~3-4 seconds]
4. Transition from the vertical pan right into an arc shot (go all the way around them while filming it very slow and smooth and then edit the speed of the zoom to your choice of speed). [the time here does not matter as much but the total time of the intro must be under 15 seconds.

Arch Shot

In the editing process for the arc shot, make the vertical pan go faster and the arc go really fast (right click on the clip > time stretch > type a number below 100 e.g. 40) as it spins around the dancer and then slow it down once it reaches around back to his or her face [Angela's example].

Editing

During the 2-3 seconds of the wide shot clip, add text. Type the First & Last Name of the dancer (make sure it is a thick font (e.g. dafont.com) that is easy enough to read, the color is contrasting, yet looks professional, not informal)

Then go IconFinder (scroll all the way down to view the free arrows) or

Render only your intro and upload to Schoology.

Part B

Freeze

Watch the example to understand how the freeze works.

At the end of the slow motion, add a .PSD freeze frame of your dancer (like you did for the AE Lighting tutorial) and pen tool them, make a copy of the selection on the layer, and paste into a new top layer (like how you made a duplicate copy of the top of the building in the flying tutorial and the student flew behind it). Take that Photoshop freeze frame and edit the image of the dancer in a creative way (example video). Use a grunge texture from the Internet for your background like the example below.

For the text, give your dancer a cool nickname a.k.a. Soulja Boy (not their real name). Make the text fly very fast from outside either the left or right side of the frame (go directly horizontal, not vertical and horizontal) and go behind the dancer and stop on the other side of the dancer and blink a few times.

Audio

Add an intro song (preferably with no lyrics) or use the beginning of your song if you think it fits for an intro or you can use the beginning of your original dance song.

Listen to the beats of your song. Some songs have fast beats while others slower. You will want to flash white on your screen on the beats of the song. Watch the short video (under 2 minute) tutorial but you decide how close together to space out each of the key frames but make sure to delete all of the keyframes of the light flashes during the slow motion on the dancer's face towards the end. In the tutorial, it shows you how to do really fast beats and normal beats.

Review

Vertical pan should be normal speed, then arc shot in fast motion, then slow motion on the face (ctrl + click on that layer's clip and choose Time > Time Stretch lower number for faster, higher number for slower (video tutorial).

Render only your intro and upload to Schoology.