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In this project I think the spark I got from most of Rachel lessons is the dynamic moves of the dancer and the moving music that compliments, to tell a story or narrative by dance, expressing emotion and feeling through movement of the body.

I didn't initially have an idea, however music it something that came to my mind now and again, especially in  Rachel workshop when we had to dance ourselves showing moves to act 'graceful' in a movement by gradually swaying your arms. Personally I think dance and music works together especially if you want to show an moving piece the music have to be just as strong with great sympathy and medium. I kinder get the sense that the dance I would want to be is gonna be moving in the creates empthy for the audience  and to identify through the movement of the dance.

I came across Andre and Klara idea, which is about being the best you can be in, reaching through the tough moments and persisting on in life to get where you want. I thought this mind set was sort of thing I was looking toward as most people can relate to this.

 Synposis

Andre idea was  about a person who want to be in a big role in a dance performance as she wants to prove herself that she is capable of doing the role, by consistently practicing her moves repeatably she will be able to get the role she played and do it in perfection.

To portray this they will be two reality, one stage(preparation) this will be the dancer preparing the moves and working hard on the moves another stage will be( the goal that have been achieved) this will show the dancers performance in the show, the achieved results, there will be an experimenting in lights to show the mood of the character in the dancer performance.

The two stages will interlink with each other, so kind of like Women(reading) from my last post it will show the camera in the same position but different location. One stage will symbolism a location so essentially they will be two location which will be sync with each other show the two connects. 



This also followed upon Klara idea on spiral instead of the traditional way of showing the narrative from beginning to end we can show as a spiral and never ending process.

Ten Walls-Walking with Elephants

I like the beginning of the the walking with elephants is have an upbeats tempo, the beat of the drum act like a heart beat that is racing faster, create an intense moment, I thought this could work well we the dancer is practicing to the moves in the studio, the intense music created a suspense, a motivated music, to keep going and carry on dancing.

Heinali- Sway,Sway

The piano piece is repetitive with the same set of beat although out, its very monotone, there not much variation in the type of musical notes unlike the previous piece, since its most of the notes are C flat, create shallow this set the mood of the piece in a very distressed feel, however this contrast by really high pitch piano key that in between the notes creates a more hopeful note. Bring it together  music shows a feeling of pondering or contemplating on something, to be mindful or to reflected upon. This piece will work perfectly well on idea of self doubting, in the story when she doesn't know whether she if she is capable of doing the dance moves. Or it can also show when she determined to also do the moves.

Alan Walker-Fade

This was just a research on other types of music that we can use or even study from, if we want to mix both traditional and contemporary music, I thought I would listen to something that is much more different in term of style and to get inspire from, and I thought this music is really good to describe and understand the rhythm and the beat, the tune have varied ratios however most dominant is the high repetitive techno beat this set the music in a very cheerful atmosphere.  





During Rachel's workshop, I showed the music to my fellow group and they preferred Heinali sway, sway,  they agreed that sway sway had a more moving piece then the other music choice and the music interlink more with synopsis.










We than see how this could be done with the dancers that is on with Walking Elephants, we focus on the idea of practice and how that could be displayed in dance, the dancers try the idea of  repetition, when you are practicing the moves we initially have to repeat the moves over and over until we got it right. However they repeat the moves however adding more moves to it to show the idea of progress.
We then look at the dancers individually, as a solo dancer and to see the moves that they can come up with.





We then did the music Heinali sway sway, this time it was when she is demotivated and not willing to move on, I have notice the way the dancer us the use of space, dancer moves either in a corner of the room or lay of the floor more the motion in which

So starting with our new brief of our project dance video, this is a very unusual mix, I usually see dance as a entertainment in concerts and live performances, usually amazed with the choreography of the dance group, and being in synchronize with each other, so I struggled  to come up with ideas as we never came across this time of video before. However doing research of music videos and dance video that have been done given me the platform to create to at least have some aspect of the use of editing cuts.



This video is one of the inspiration thought I had in mind with different environment or perspective but same movements, but interlink with each moves. Its useful to know that the moves still have different camera angles, however the dance express the same moves in different locations, I also love the dynamic range of moves the dancers creates, and how the camera shots empathized by, slight slow motion feature it creates, a more moving piece as it shows close up of the dances technique more and precision of the moves.


 Maya Deren Study in Choreography for Camera also have the same cutting method however the Camera movement is much more slow in movement, the cut wasn't fast pace like Women, however looking at the film its interesting to know the techniques of a 1940s film still capture, I think this film focus on the use of space and where the dancer is positioned, most of the consistent use of wide shots creates the idea of being alone, no other being but himself, he is surrounded the space around him , freely able to dance in any environment.



This piece video show peaceful dance piece the dancer moves are very graceful as he gradually moves into one position to the next, the movement shows subtle and cared thought moves this correspond perfectly well in the woodland area as nature symbolized peace and well being.


This short clip called Nine variation on a dance theme de Hilary Harris it was interesting in the way the camera shots, it was a simplistic video, but it nice to see the way the camera follows the dancer in ever she using the whole space to show the dynamics of the moves, it show a variety of camera movements extreme close up shots of her thighs and hand gestures which I like the most  it almost give a sense of ambiguity as we don't see the face of the dancer, the shots was also in beat with the music.

Research and Planning
This project have been an interesting journey to take, most of it was a constant change of ideas and concept, I think we depict a very difficult subject to cover in turns of underlying the issues of culture stereotypes, I think we could of research and enormous amount of research based on culture difference and theory of stereotypes.I think we just scratch the surface of stereotypes in countries and cultures

Production
The lack of preparation in the production stages of filming the documentary could done it better in terms of location and permission like filming in London on that rainy day this was mainly my wrong behave. The video clip that we have produced wasn't in our best of our abilities.





Improvements

 For the Group
There were numerous mistakes that could of been easily avoid, however I suppose the idea develop more interesting when we contribute to the practical level of making our own interpretation  of the three countries ,the idea develop more interesting in an using different mix media work to create an collage piece however this was too late resulting for what we have a group.

For myself
For me as a person I think I should be not afraid to take risk, this project was a little safe in terms of ideas development and how it result to and to be more confident on my abilities, and really stretch what I can really do.