Initially when we got together Katherine suggest we did something around the concept of deaf people and dance. We all thought this was an interesting concept which we could do something unique with, how ever we struggled to come up for a concept of the dance its self. We thought about showing how the deaf can interperate music through vibrations but could not think of a way to show that in dance form. We started to think that all though if we could pull it off it would be a great video with the time frame and budget we have it would be very hard. We have decided to let go of this idea for the mean time as we dont want to gone on and flog a dead horse and end up with a really bad video.
After discussing it with the group we thought we would rather do something simpler so we could concentrate on getting aspects like the dance, cinematography and production design 100% perfect and have a good finish product.
As i have been thinking about this project for a while as it is one that interestes me the most out of this years topics, i had a lot of ideas spinning round my head that i pitched towards the group.
The best ones i came up with were
- Disabled dancer - i watched a lot of videos when researching deaf dancers and ended up looking at other disabled people too, one video that interested me was (click here) . This lead me to think about using a legless dancer and marking a trail in light from where their leg would have been moving. I thought this was a good idea as it would look visually interesting and would also draw attention to that disabled people can still dance.
- Tribal gang- I was thinking about how children bullying each other in school looks like a bunch of animals in wilderness. I thought we could simulate this in a dance using some interesting costumes and dance movements using the body to work with 2 people.
- A break up- I wanted to film a relationship break up in dance form as i thought we could do some interesting camera movements and have like a tango between the 2 people which would look interesting. I also though we could do this move of a music video style as there are pleant of songs out their about breakups that we could use and work with.
- pop punk + ballet - I think a lot of pop punk songs are quit poetic but that gets over looked by most people as they dont like the screaming or style of music so i though we could use something like ballet to draw the attention back to how beautiful that type of music could be.
- My dream i had, - so i had a dream that a man went to go see a play when he walked int he room their were like 5 people stood still not moving but when you touched a body part the person could move that part so if you stood on both their feet and held there hands you could dance in sync with them and its was like beautiful, the man fell in love with the girl he danced with so he waited out side for her but she never came out, the next day he did the same thing saw the play then waited and then agin the next day, the day after he thought something was wrong so broke into the room and saw they we stood still not moving, we went to put his finger on her lip to make her talk as she could only move it when touched but the man was stoped and kidnapped but the puppet controler, he was poinsoned like the girl and could now only stand still like the dancers he was placed stood in front of the girl he loved so he could never touch or talk to her just stare at her for the rest of their lifes. Its rather hard to discribe this in writing but the dream was really sad and i woke up crying from it, how ever i feel this is more a film with dance in than a dance film.
- Overweight dancers - Their is a big steryotype that "fat" people are lazy and cant dance, i want to show how this isnt allways the case that they can do exactly what a "normal " person can do.
- Liminality - I love poetry, one of my favourites is a poem called 'liminality' by neil hilborn I think the way he discribes their deaths is so beautiful and would look amazing in a dance film. How ever we wouldnt be able to film it underwater so we would have to film it on a green screen and make it look like its under water and beautiful in after effects. The way i immagin it looking is kind of like this picture
- Rape- I saw a physical theatre play in edinburgh a few years ago. It was one woman on stage to start with she was getting drunk and it was funny to watch as she was dancing all silly but then it became quite shocking as she was trying to highlight how drunk girls get taken advantage of and the dance turned into a simulation her being raped. I think this was really interesting and could be very moving if we filmed it carefully.
- Another poet i like writes poems in just 6 words ( see blog here ) i thought it could be interesting to use one of these as a starting point for a dance video, how ever there is the issue of copyright again
Kat and lauren said they liked all of the ideas but mainly the poem and the break up one. They also said they would be worried with doing one about rape or obese people as if we dont plan it well or something gose wrong it could become offensive, which i agree with. We agreed we probably need a tutorial or to think the ideas out a bit more before we can clarify an idea.
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