Dance film - Research

New Day New Task:

so a while ago we were set two tasks of which we could do one. the first, dance film. design and create, film, a dance film. the second, Fields and Frames, an incredibly wide brief where you could do anything as long as you can justify it. 

original plan:

so my original plan was to work on other peoples projects, as DOP, costume and Gaffer. however, after thinking about this plan, i realised i literally have no idea how to put that into a learning agreement, after plenty of emails to rosie explaining i was so lost and couldn't do it, panicking about the whole thing, genuinely thought i was going to fail and that was it. i spoke to rosie and rachel about a vague idea i had about growing up. rosie ended up just saying i should just take a shot in the dark and go for it. probably the best thing she could've said to me. so i went away and on sunday, i made 8 pages of notes, postits, mindmaps, etc. to try and formulate a solid idea:






so all of these notes are about my ideas, dances im familiar with, information from some websites i found useful. this is only a selection of all my notes because i couldnt picture them all. i really did this in an effort to familiarise myself with forms of dance again as it has been a while. 

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