So much can happen in so little time - Rhianna Rude Boy Music Video Cover - Behind the scenes

I remade one of my very old pieces to Rhianna because I had to submit a video for the URBANSTAR YouTube Artist contest 2012, unfortunately for me, I didn't realise how hard the song is to sing, silly me! It was pretty fun getting all girly again for this video! Seems like a long while since I danced like a woman :).

A lot can happen in such a little amount of time

beginning my motivational speech ;)
So hi there, you sitting there in your chair :)! I'm sure you have some dreams of your own, and if your not out living them you should start! ASAP! The biggest excuse I find people have is "I don't have time to..." [insert whatever you need to do to live your dream]. And you know what? I used to have the exact same mentality...but I realised something. The things that actually help you get to where you need to get to happen so very quickly! Whatever you are doing now, you are just working towards that moment where it all changes. For example, you may have been dancing your whole life but it takes that one moment when you get the part in an audition or win a competition to really make your dreams a reality, and those moments happen quickly! If you weren't already dancing, you'd never have the opportunity to get to that one moment :). - end motivational speech here.

I've always wanted to entertain people on YouTube (a weird ambition I know), but being someone who doesn't have much video editing experience or "had the time" to, I've hardly done much. In addition I'm scared of looking stupid and don't think what I do is good enough. I've created a few videos here and there with my webcam and imovie but that's as far as it went. Creating a proper high quality video seemed so out of reach and seemed like it took so much effort, but when I was put under pressure - I did it in 3 nights, and I intend to keep working as hard and getting better at this (please hold me accountable and stop me from being lazy!) If you have any pointers for me please let me know :)

3 nights of awesomeness

So as I mentioned above video took 3 nights to pull together and was extremely fun :)! I spent one night teaching the choreography, one night filming and one night editing. I had a lot of help along the way which I'm am really grateful for! So thank you Honey and Cynthia for dancing, Jason Queue for filming with such late notice and last but not least my lovely bf Ash for editing and taking photos on the day :) Also a big thank you to Dance Generation Studios in Epping for providing the lovely venue.

The most fun part of the night was probably playing with the smoke machine smoke hahaahaha - I am quite easy to please.

Here are some photos from the filming. [scroll to the end for the video]

Going through the choreography - note to self - don't sweat too much during this time or it will be caught on camera :P

Some cool artistic captures by Ash through the video camera - it just looks cool!

Just had to add more in because it looks so good :)

The dancers ;) Cynthia being heaps silly and Honey being cheerful and excited as always <3

Cuties <3 :)

hahaha don't mind me this looks abstract!

During one of our breaks, we decided to get some cool shots!

Practiced my duck face :()

The lovely boyfriend Ash ;)

I'm sad I didn't get more shots of Jason but here he is filming the intro scenes. Talented guy :) You must check out his other works!