Its the 99th post and it seems I have become very complacent with my blog this last term and I feel I have neglected it. This might be due to the fact that last term was super mega busy, and that I had started to become very uninspired and disillusioned with the whole thing.
So here is my first post in ages, whilst its quiet I thought I would brainstorm some ideas for my final major project. I am going to put an idea through, and after talking to Georg about some of my ideas, it becam apparent that this one was the strongest and I realized how much I liked it when I was trying to explain it to him in my tutorial. At the moment it is nothing more than a un-refined moosh of ideas, but I will try and explain it as best as I can.
From the start...
Only a few people know that I used to dance, and for a year or two that was what I wanted to succeed in. I did classes every day for 8 years (apart from weekends obviously) I was very close to applying to various dance school to realise this dream, until I realised that not only did I not possess the correct physique (all this has changed now, who knew?!) but I lacked about 10 years of experience. I was somewhat naive and I essentially threw this idea of my perfect career away. I carried on with art and design, as it was another area I was interested in and eventually I ended up on the Animation course at Falmouth, which I think was a blessing in disguise. I had to give up dancing when I moved to Falmouth, and I have only just found a dance class in the local area, after near enough 4 years of not dancing. But I realise now how much I missed it and how much of my small segment of life I had spent dancing. This led me to think that I could potentially incorporate this into my FMP somehow. After a chance meeting with some Dartington Choreography students (I was tagging along with my housemate who was filming a performance) a thought crossed my mind that perhaps I could somehow choreograph my own dance, and lace it with animation to create...something. A performance or animation I suppose?
After some more thinking and advice from The Boy, I decided that it was all well and good having a somewhat abstract idea but I needed a subject matter to focus it around. So after more pondering, we came up with the idea of death. I, personally am absolutely terrified of death, dying and all things encompassing this. It keeps me awake at night thinking about how insignificant we as a race are, and how my life will be over in a blip. The thought of what happens after the act of dying makes me feel cold, fills me with terror but wonder as well. I can't read or watch anything by Stephen Hawking, for example, with out getting depressed, as ridiculous as it sounds. So I thought that this would be an interesting avenue to explore!
There are so many different paths off the theme of death - reglious ideas, phyical, mythical etc etc. I know I want to avoid going down the scary blood and gore horror route, which I fear will be difficult, as it seems somewhat ingrained in peoples mind when you mention death.
I want to choreograph a dance, and cut animation into it, perhaps even map animation onto the dancers also. I know I want it to be a duo (I might even be one half of it?) and I want the animation to be design wise non relating, but I think this will develop itself when I refine the whole idea.
I have been looking into choreographers that I am interested in and weirdly this weekend has been a dance weekend on BBC Four, and one of the programmes was all about contempory dance. This was really interesting and one of the choreographers featured was Hofesh Shechter. He is a dancer/choreographer from Isreal. The name wont be familiar but if you are my age (23) I'm sure you must have seen this - http://youtu.be/aGR2XedwX0I (youtube wont let me embed the video) a couple of years back on a program called Skins.
Here is an interview Shechter did for the culture show which shows another dance he choreographed -
This is style of dance I am aiming for, contemporary but not too loose, fluid but still with hip-hop elements, and more structured movements.
In terms of animation, I am still looking into it....
I will post more when I find more to show! Its all a bit higgildy Piggildy at the moment in my brain box but once I refine the idea, Im hoping that it will be something interesting and that people would enjoy watching.
So here is my first post in ages, whilst its quiet I thought I would brainstorm some ideas for my final major project. I am going to put an idea through, and after talking to Georg about some of my ideas, it becam apparent that this one was the strongest and I realized how much I liked it when I was trying to explain it to him in my tutorial. At the moment it is nothing more than a un-refined moosh of ideas, but I will try and explain it as best as I can.
From the start...
Only a few people know that I used to dance, and for a year or two that was what I wanted to succeed in. I did classes every day for 8 years (apart from weekends obviously) I was very close to applying to various dance school to realise this dream, until I realised that not only did I not possess the correct physique (all this has changed now, who knew?!) but I lacked about 10 years of experience. I was somewhat naive and I essentially threw this idea of my perfect career away. I carried on with art and design, as it was another area I was interested in and eventually I ended up on the Animation course at Falmouth, which I think was a blessing in disguise. I had to give up dancing when I moved to Falmouth, and I have only just found a dance class in the local area, after near enough 4 years of not dancing. But I realise now how much I missed it and how much of my small segment of life I had spent dancing. This led me to think that I could potentially incorporate this into my FMP somehow. After a chance meeting with some Dartington Choreography students (I was tagging along with my housemate who was filming a performance) a thought crossed my mind that perhaps I could somehow choreograph my own dance, and lace it with animation to create...something. A performance or animation I suppose?
After some more thinking and advice from The Boy, I decided that it was all well and good having a somewhat abstract idea but I needed a subject matter to focus it around. So after more pondering, we came up with the idea of death. I, personally am absolutely terrified of death, dying and all things encompassing this. It keeps me awake at night thinking about how insignificant we as a race are, and how my life will be over in a blip. The thought of what happens after the act of dying makes me feel cold, fills me with terror but wonder as well. I can't read or watch anything by Stephen Hawking, for example, with out getting depressed, as ridiculous as it sounds. So I thought that this would be an interesting avenue to explore!
There are so many different paths off the theme of death - reglious ideas, phyical, mythical etc etc. I know I want to avoid going down the scary blood and gore horror route, which I fear will be difficult, as it seems somewhat ingrained in peoples mind when you mention death.
I want to choreograph a dance, and cut animation into it, perhaps even map animation onto the dancers also. I know I want it to be a duo (I might even be one half of it?) and I want the animation to be design wise non relating, but I think this will develop itself when I refine the whole idea.
I have been looking into choreographers that I am interested in and weirdly this weekend has been a dance weekend on BBC Four, and one of the programmes was all about contempory dance. This was really interesting and one of the choreographers featured was Hofesh Shechter. He is a dancer/choreographer from Isreal. The name wont be familiar but if you are my age (23) I'm sure you must have seen this - http://youtu.be/aGR2XedwX0I (youtube wont let me embed the video) a couple of years back on a program called Skins.
Here is an interview Shechter did for the culture show which shows another dance he choreographed -
This is style of dance I am aiming for, contemporary but not too loose, fluid but still with hip-hop elements, and more structured movements.
In terms of animation, I am still looking into it....
I will post more when I find more to show! Its all a bit higgildy Piggildy at the moment in my brain box but once I refine the idea, Im hoping that it will be something interesting and that people would enjoy watching.
