Dance Video Group Meeting 2

We had a group meeting over lunch on Thursday 16th February to just try and finalise some decisions now that we have had a chance to go away and look into things and think about them. Here is what we decided:

Our producer confirmed to us that the best dates for us to film would be 17th March for Prelight and on location Rehearsal and 27th to 30th of March for filming. We all agreed on these and locked them in as our dates.

Now we had decided on dates we could look into which location would be feasible. Me and Sugini were very keep to film in a studio in the university because the more we thought about how conceptual our idea is the more a blank space made sense rather than somewhere recognisable. Katherine as producer said she would enquire as to weather there would be a studio free for the days we wanted and also if not weather the scout hut/hall would be free as a back up. Katherine let us know that there was a studio free on the dates we needed however the hall was not so we made the decision to go with the studio.

Next we needed to get dancers for the proposed dates. We had a discussion as to weather we wanted trained dancers or amateur people with the actual phobia. We felt using someone with the actual phobia may put people in a very uncomfortable position trying to express it and we also felt it wouldn't be as styled. We decided we want two trained dancers, preferable a male and female so that lifts etc can be accomplished well. We want contemporary dancers as this is the style we like. We decided video submissions would be an easier way to choose dancers rather than making them audition so our next task was to make an advert expressing this that we could circulate.

Lastly we then spoke about what phobias we wanted to express. We wanted three and to have a dance for each lasting about a minute. We spoke about which phobias we had so far come across which were good to express and we felt we could do a lot with visually. We decided on Arachnophobia because we had learnt from the dance workshops that this was a good one to visually express as is also very common. We then chose Claustrophobia because again this is common an we felt we could do a lot visually with this to make it interesting by having one dancer trap the other. The last one we chose was astraphobia (thunder and lighting) because this is very common especially in children and we felt like we could really have a chance to play around with lighting effects and camera effects here. I am happy with our choices we just all need to go away and do some research so we can begin to come up with ideas for choreography.