this is my new idea

This is one of the videos I found. I just neeeded an example video to practise with until I got my own footage. The section I have taken from is about half way through. Its a video of a dance choreographed by Merce Cunningham.

I've been looking at the work of Muybridge - he's famous for using multiple cameras to capture movement and obviously having a fabulous beard.

Through looking at his work, I decided to take stills from every few frames or so. This gives that gerky effect, a bit like a projection. I also want the whole thing to be black and white.


This is the video so far - this isn't exactly how I want it to be at the end, its just a rough idea. I've managed to organise a studio and a dancer to film!

I like some ideas in these videos

Map update, mupdate

Eventually, I would like to combine the written notation aspect of it with actuall movement. Most of my ideas are pointing towards making a video but I'm still exploring representing it all in 2D. These are some bits from my book with some of the ideas













My favourite idea so far is fairly ambitious but I think I can do it. I wanted to film someone making a cup of coffee or something but the movements gradually getting more and more dance like until the movements they are doing are just for dancing sake, no function. Down the side of the screen, I want there to be the notation moving up as the dance progresses. Make the notation look like its been put there after I have filmed it. At the end, the person comes over to the notation and writes in the final movements of them writing in the final movements. I was inspired by an advert I saw. I think its by Fallon but im not sure, it just looks like thier sort of thing.

I really like the way it is filmed- letting the story just unfold in front of you.

Another idea, is to somehow encorporate the notation into the actuall dancing. I saw this advert ages ago and really liked it.


I was thinking about doing a similar sort of thing but with the notation - taking it out of its formal structure - and placing the symbols on the floor or in the air.

Map

This is an example of a form of dance notation- Labanotation. It is a universal way of describing movement using abstract symbols. I chose this as my map becuase its fantastic visaully and also the idea of describing something like dance which is a fluid and natural in an ordered and disiplined way really interests me.

To begin with, I want to notate everyday actions like getting out of bed, and getting ready in the morning- although these suond like mundain activities, they will still look like a dance in notation form. I'm also interested in incorporating dance into the project somehow.

Short Video project

So I've finally managed to upload my video! I apoligise for the crap quality and there doesn't seem to be any sound.

I was interested in the video we saw by Lasse Gjertsen which presents a stream of thoughts. I started by going into my garden and writing down my thoughts constantly for about half an hour. I then made this animation in flash, focusing on just a few lines from what I had written. The writing is scanned from the notebook, I wanted to use the original writing and I think this went well with the drawing style I chose to use.

Poster design for John Maclean

I was quite excited when I found out who was doing the lecture on wednesday becuase i really like The Beta Band, so I was definately going to have a go at the poster. I'm pleased with the outcome but I'm not sure if people will like it. I've been working at it for hours without being able to go and have a break and come back to it with fresh eyes. The drawing is of a robot that can solve rubik's cubes. Becuase wasn't entirely sure what John Maclean would be talking about, I looked into what The Aliens character and style was and thier past album covers, artwork etc. I thought John Maclean probably liked robots and what better robot to use than a rubik's cube solving one. For the type, I printed it out on newsprint paper (the font was "OCR A Extended") really small. My printers abit crap so I got the strange line effect which I liked. I then scanned it in and made it much bigger which exaggerated the imperfections.

Josie Long

Last night I went to see Josie long, a comedian, who was down in Brighton for the comedy festival. She was absolutely fantastic- i've never actually been inspired by a comedy act before. I recommend to anybody to go and see her if you get the chance. Aswell as obviously being really funny, there are actuall points she wants to get across underlying her jokes. Shes so enthusiastic and positive about everything! The show was called Trying is Good and was basically praising poeple who put in the extra effort and keep on trying even though everythings against them.

One of her stories really stuck in my mind. She talked about the Quaker Edward Hicks who painted atleast 62 versions of the same painting- A Peaceable Kingdom. He did this becuase he found that painting this scene from the bible didn't in anyway compromise his religion or his act of painting.
She concluded with "if your inspired, however weird it is, just do it anyway". I haven't really done the story justice becuase I can't
properly remember it but I felt very excited and enthused afterwards!




This is Josie Long's version of The Peaceable Kingdom!

She made her own show pragramme and photocopied it for everyone, this was one of the pages:

I quite liked the quotes she picked out particularly the last one.

At the end, she gave out postcards addressed to her and wanted anybody to write to her if they find any interesting characters. Me and Sadie are sending her one with Vance Vance on it with the drawing we did.