Dance Video: Minutes from our Meeting - Part I

15^th January 2014 – Full Group Meeting

Themes we would like to explore:

·      Jacob: Relations with the elements. “The fundamental beliefs.. Phases of matter. Earth is solid. Water is liquid. Air is gas. Fire is plasma.”

o   Tamara: Each of us could choreograph an element to keep the personality unique.

·      Tamara: We could do just one element if it all gets complicated.

Technicalities:

·      Cameras – something that can handle at least 50fps.

o   SONY EX3

o   Tamara has a Canon EOS 7D.

o   Callam can get a hold of a Canon EOS 7D.

Right Now Experiments:

·      Time Freeze

·      Particles.

·      Water.

·      Paint

How to Prepare to Friday

·      Tamara brings rice.

·      We each choreograph/list the tasks for the dancers.

The Group Study Task

1.     Decide on your film type: Music Video, Dance Film, Promo Film, Viral Advert.

2.     Establish your theme or content: what are you trying to say? What is your artistic voice?

3.     Why are you using movement, what do you want it to say? What style of movement will you use and why? What does the body in space represent? Is it narrative or abstract? How will you generate material with your dancers? How does the movement relate to the content?

4.     Chose a scene from your film to create with 2-3 dancers. Direct your dancer using improvisation or choreographed movement.

5.     Prepare tasks for your dancers to generate movement. Set up an improvisation to create a structure, introduce an emotion to communicate a quality. Set a creative task for the dancer to build a dance phrase which is relevant to your theme/content. ACTIONS – Jump, Turn, Travel, Gesture, Stillness, Falling – manipulate with CHOREOGRAPHIC DEVICES. Plan a variety of camera shots: close ups, body parts, full shots. Spacing: where is the action in the frame?