First steps
For my dance film, I want to play with the viewers perception, or more accurately, measure it, the goal is to make a dance film that plays with accentuation, and the viewer's perception of dance. The film will start with someone moving quite normally through a house, starting at the sink in the kitchen, filling a cup, they they begin doing chores around the house, but each action as they go on, will increase in accentuation, until the dancer is clearly and fluidly dancing.
During the dance lessons, I was always hesitant to take part, I don't like being the one dancing, so I'd always try to keep my movements simple, but I thought that in itself was interesting, I had a notion of how much I had to move before I felt I was dancing. And it made me question just that, how much does a person have to accentuate their movements before it's seen as dance. In response to that question, I want to create a dance sequence that works by increasing the dancer's extenuation of a standard task around a house. I want the dancer to begin by quite simply turning a tap on in a kitchen and filling a cup, from there, I wanted to have them moving to another room, and as they do, actions such as opening a door, or walking down a hall will slow be exaggerated more, and the movements would become more and more like dance, by incorporating more flow and fluidity, as well as more accentuation into regular actions performed around the house; like how they drink from the cup, while moving around, as well as the way they sit down, hopefully ending up at the tap again, but because of the slowly increasing accentuation, simply turning the tap on is now far more dance-like, and completely different.
I want it to be obvious to the viewer that the sequence didn't really start as much of a dance, but ends up in a full flow of a rhythmic sequence of movement. That said, there are lots of different styles of dance, and I wanted something that could be subtle, but still capable of a build, but flows, and doesn't really have large stops. Something similar to this; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clyuS6mfujo
The dancer if fluidly moving with brief stops in the movement that are short enough to let the viewer keep easily up with the sequence as something coherent. What drew me to this style is the way circumductive movements are used to match drawn out notes and chord progression. Which brings me to the music. I was half tempted to cut music out, and emphasize the normality of the actions, but I don't think that would actually be achieved that way. I think it would be better to use music that rises from a silence, much like the dance, the music would become more complex and exaggerated as the sequence goes on.
As for composing my own music, I want to create something with a building sound, not increasing pace, so that the soundtrack does get any faster, it simply increases in complexity and prominence as the film goes on, much like the dancing. I was planning to compose the sound track with Aaron, and to work closely with him on scoring my piece.
I was considering shooting this at my parents home, due to there being a lot of wide spaces and interesting opportunities for interactions. The only issue is this means that I would have to find a dancer in Birmingham, or someone willing to travel to Birmingham.
During the dance lessons, I was always hesitant to take part, I don't like being the one dancing, so I'd always try to keep my movements simple, but I thought that in itself was interesting, I had a notion of how much I had to move before I felt I was dancing. And it made me question just that, how much does a person have to accentuate their movements before it's seen as dance. In response to that question, I want to create a dance sequence that works by increasing the dancer's extenuation of a standard task around a house. I want the dancer to begin by quite simply turning a tap on in a kitchen and filling a cup, from there, I wanted to have them moving to another room, and as they do, actions such as opening a door, or walking down a hall will slow be exaggerated more, and the movements would become more and more like dance, by incorporating more flow and fluidity, as well as more accentuation into regular actions performed around the house; like how they drink from the cup, while moving around, as well as the way they sit down, hopefully ending up at the tap again, but because of the slowly increasing accentuation, simply turning the tap on is now far more dance-like, and completely different.
I want it to be obvious to the viewer that the sequence didn't really start as much of a dance, but ends up in a full flow of a rhythmic sequence of movement. That said, there are lots of different styles of dance, and I wanted something that could be subtle, but still capable of a build, but flows, and doesn't really have large stops. Something similar to this; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clyuS6mfujo
The dancer if fluidly moving with brief stops in the movement that are short enough to let the viewer keep easily up with the sequence as something coherent. What drew me to this style is the way circumductive movements are used to match drawn out notes and chord progression. Which brings me to the music. I was half tempted to cut music out, and emphasize the normality of the actions, but I don't think that would actually be achieved that way. I think it would be better to use music that rises from a silence, much like the dance, the music would become more complex and exaggerated as the sequence goes on.
As for composing my own music, I want to create something with a building sound, not increasing pace, so that the soundtrack does get any faster, it simply increases in complexity and prominence as the film goes on, much like the dancing. I was planning to compose the sound track with Aaron, and to work closely with him on scoring my piece.
I was considering shooting this at my parents home, due to there being a lot of wide spaces and interesting opportunities for interactions. The only issue is this means that I would have to find a dancer in Birmingham, or someone willing to travel to Birmingham.
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