Alice and I love to collaborate, therefore we have come up for an idea together for our dance film. Our idea is only very rough as we haven't completed much research surrounding it at the moment, but none the less this is our starting point.
Our idea consists of having one single dancer spreading paint across the body and dancing and painting together through the movements. This is a very rough idea of what we want to achieve, and have had some discussions with Rachel Deadman about how this could be achieved.
Rachel suggested;
- thinking about the levels of movement, spreading paint across the body in a concentrated manner and capturing it at different levels of the body.
- attending to the body, manipulating the movements to indicate something or an emotion, playing with the speed of the movement
- 360 vision so no part of the body is missed, not a 'face on' experience
We want our film to be a whole body experience, showing a connection of the upper and lower body through movement.
Some things we need to think about to aid our further planning:
- does the vision follow the camera or does the vision follow the dancer?
- what does the camera mean / represent?
- do we take control of the gaze?
Saturday 27 January 2018
Friday 19 January 2018
Dance Film - Workshops with Rachel Deadman
Choreography and Dance with Rachel Deadman
Rachel was kind enough to come in and run and three day workshop with us, regarding our new brief on making a dance film. I found her workshop really useful as she covered so many different things, from understanding choreography, learning how to frame the body for camera, relationships through movement and how to direct dancers for your film.
The workshop was very interactive but also really helped me to understand how to work with dancers and how to plan your film in order to work with them in the best way possible.
On the third day of the workshop she brought in some professional dancers and they were kind enough to work with us and demonstrate some ways in which they can interpret our ideas. It was also useful to hear them explain what terminology you should use when instructing dancers, things to say that are easier to interpret and get the best result.
We also learnt how to work well with the space when operating a camera around dancers, and how to frame certain shots in order to get the best out of their movement.
Rachel was kind enough to come in and run and three day workshop with us, regarding our new brief on making a dance film. I found her workshop really useful as she covered so many different things, from understanding choreography, learning how to frame the body for camera, relationships through movement and how to direct dancers for your film.
The workshop was very interactive but also really helped me to understand how to work with dancers and how to plan your film in order to work with them in the best way possible.
On the third day of the workshop she brought in some professional dancers and they were kind enough to work with us and demonstrate some ways in which they can interpret our ideas. It was also useful to hear them explain what terminology you should use when instructing dancers, things to say that are easier to interpret and get the best result.
We also learnt how to work well with the space when operating a camera around dancers, and how to frame certain shots in order to get the best out of their movement.
The dancers also created some totally spontaneous routines just based on emotions or words that we had given them, demonstrating how words and feelings can influence movement. This was useful to get us thinking about what direction we can give to dancers to get a better result, and what works best when directing dancers.
Friday 12 January 2018
Avert Your Eyes - Exhibition
DFSA Year 2 had the opportunity to exhibit our Maps and Networks projects in the Spinal Corridor of the University. This was really exciting, to be able to plan our own exhibition and how we wanted our work to be presented.
Alice and I sat down and thought about how we would want our work to be exhibited. At first we thought about using the box in the middle of the quad space, as it would be a really immersive way of encouraging people to go into the space and become apart of what they are seeing. We planned to dress the box in all red, linking with the colour theme of our work.
However, this space was not available as someone else was exhibiting a different piece from another course in there, so we had to go back and rethink how we would make our work fit in the corridor.
We found a good corner space at the beginning of the corridor that also had a platform. Our idea was to turn the space into a 'bedroom', as if you are being immersed into a females bedroom, as we thought this would work well with the nature of our twin screen.
We did some brainstorming around what we would place in the space in order to make it an installation:
Alice and I decided that we would have headphones for the audio of our twin screen. This would encourage people to actively interact with our piece, and also meant people wouldn't be able to hear it if they chose not to.
Overall we are really happy with the presentation of our work and managed to make it fit in the corridor space. I really loved being in control of exhibiting our own work and is something I would love to do again in the future.
Alice and I sat down and thought about how we would want our work to be exhibited. At first we thought about using the box in the middle of the quad space, as it would be a really immersive way of encouraging people to go into the space and become apart of what they are seeing. We planned to dress the box in all red, linking with the colour theme of our work.
However, this space was not available as someone else was exhibiting a different piece from another course in there, so we had to go back and rethink how we would make our work fit in the corridor.
We found a good corner space at the beginning of the corridor that also had a platform. Our idea was to turn the space into a 'bedroom', as if you are being immersed into a females bedroom, as we thought this would work well with the nature of our twin screen.
We did some brainstorming around what we would place in the space in order to make it an installation:
- red sheets
- cushions
- make up
- nail varnish
- tissues (wipe away red lipstick)
- tampons
- false nails
- mirror
- hair clips
- underwear
- pill packets
- items of clothing
- condoms / sexual health products
As we chose to place external items in the space, we would have to take relevant measures to make sure these would be safe, and nobody would be able to take them away. Therefore we stapled all the items down so they wouldn't fall off and cause a hazard but also so they couldn't be removed.
Overall we are really happy with the presentation of our work and managed to make it fit in the corridor space. I really loved being in control of exhibiting our own work and is something I would love to do again in the future.
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