B-Roll Footage

So after a few hours of looking through potential B-Roll footage I have decided on a few clips that I would like to use. Unfortunately I did not know about this project before all of the years programs were done, but thanks to Youtube I was able to find some good 20 - 30 second clips to use for transitioning throughout the documentary.

To fill the 30 minute requirement I have decided to use five to nine 20 - 30 second clips of past PAC performances. These clips will both help transition between interview questions and also help keep the documentary fun and exciting. Also since all of these clips are accompanied with great sound, I am going to use them to play quietly in the background of the interviews. This helps a lot because now I do not have to search for music, and the videos, and then the background sound will help the documentary flow.

Here are four of the clips I am planning to use!

If you are the owner of any of these clips and would like them removed from this blog please email me at lniecg72@mercyhurst.edu.

This first one is a clip of Ballet Folklorico de Mexico



The Ballet Folklorico de Mexico was the first sold out show of the PAC after the opening night. It was in 1998 and one of the favorite performances by many of the staff members.


This second clip is from the St. Petersburg State Ice Ballet's production of Sleeping Beauty.

Originally I was intending to use footage from their production of The Nutcracker, but I was not able to find any good footage.



The St. Petersburg State Ice Ballet's Nutcracker was a landmark show to the PAC. For the Nutcracker, an ice rink was literally built on the PAC stage. This ice rink took a lot of work to maintain, but was such a successful and fun show that the PAC staff may secretly try to bring it back to Mercyhurst within the next few years. But please, you did not read that from me!


This next clip is from YAMATO.



Yamato has visited Mercyhurst several times in the past, and has truly become one of the PAC's most entertaining and well received shows in the PAC's history.

For these clips I was intending to first fade to black and then fade in to the clip, and the fact that this clip from YAMATO starts in black with only one drummer visible, fits perfectly into my plan for editing.


This last clip is Juan Carmona, a spanish classical guitarist.



This clip is not a stand out visual clip, but the audio that it has will cover the last 5 minutes of the documentary.


Like I said earlier, I would really like to use five to nine clips, and so far I only have these four, but tomorrow I will be picking at least two more clips.

These clips could be from any of these programs:

Ana Vidovic
Biava String Quarter
Regina Carter
Streb
Pink Martini
Max Raabe
The Metropolitan Opera HD

If I can find clips from each of these artists I will love to use at least two to three for the documentary and the other three to four during for credits.

If you would like to see any of these in the documentary, or clips from any of the other past performances please post a comment to this post!!!

Thanks and I hope to hear from you!