Thursday, 16 November 2017

Screen Dance Journals

Week 7: 16/11/17

In this week’s session, we wanted to look at locations to film our pieces. Our homework this week was to film in different locations and camera angles for our movement. To begin the session, we watched the footage we took, and discussed what worked and what didn’t work within the shots. From my solo, the group said that they liked the depth of my solo, and they felt like the movement could be developed further and heightened if more dancers were involved. I had to teach Sarah and Kayleigh my solo, while we worked with grace to work out camera angles that suit the movement. When working on the material, we worked out that for the fast section of my material, we wanted the camera to run round with/through us as it made the movement seem more disjointed and the camera became a fourth dancer.

Our next task was to think of costumes that would suit the material. We thought about something loose fitting, and our original idea was something like yellow trench coats, something that stood out. When we went into the costume cupboard there wasn’t any coats, and the one thing that stood out was two wedding dresses. We decided that as there was only two, we wanted a contrasting colour dress that stood out from the white. As we decided last week on outside locations, we chose a red dress to contrast with the white and the green of the grass. Once we put on the wedding dresses, the movement became very restrictive, however, the movement of the dresses looked really good on the camera and added more texture to the piece. We decided to continue with the dresses and keep rehearsing in them to become more familiar with the movement restrictions and the weight of the dress.


Our homework for this was to go round as a class and choice a location to film all of our material in our costumes.

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