Resolution 1, Assistant Director & Co-Choreographer & Assistant Editor for Katherine

As well as completing my own individual piece of work with a crew I am also part of other peoples crews. Another one of the projects I am involved in is a piece called 'Gunpowder Mill' (working title) led by Katherine. It has been agreed that I am Assistant Director, Co-Choreographer and Assistant Editor on this piece and I am very excited about that. It is another Dance Video with a very similar group to last years dance project and therefore we are hoping we can pull off another successful piece. The dance will be on location at an old derelict Gunpowder Mill and the dance itself will be representing the history/space and what use to go on there however this hasn't been fully realised yet.

Group Meeting

I partook in a group meeting on the 11/10/17 with the full crew involved in this piece so that we could be briefed on what was happening with it and what we would hopefully be achieving. We firstly began by clarifying the roles everyone would take within the crew and then we moved on to talk about the technical side of things. It was said that at the moment the GH4 seems like the best camera to use for this shoot especially because it is small and will be good for moving about on location. It is also the same camera we used on our last dance project so we felt we all knew a lot about it already. We then spoke about the actually dance and it is said that if we are able to get three dancers on board we will be using 3 different dancers this time all moving about the gunpowder mill in different ways. However if this is not possible it could go to just 1 dancer exploring the whole space. Gender is not a problem for this project as Katherine has said the way she will dress the dancers won't be gender specific anyway. We then spoke about the overall feel of the piece and she almost wants it to be tense and a bit creepy kind of like the last dance we did but this time in a more ghostly manor. We spoke about making this ghostly effect while filming but also in post which is something that will be experimented with. Lastly we discussed the location and the fundamentals of it when it comes to weather etc which we think will be manageable however we have arranged to go in a few weeks as a group together to do a Location Recce to suss things out a bit more. I am very happy to start this project now as it all seems very exciting and it will be real fun to get to work on another Dance Video.

Location Recce

On 23/10/17 Myself (AD), Katherine (Director & Producer), Sugini (DOP), Umor (camera) and Ethan (Camera) all met at 11am to go together to the location to complete a Recce. It was a 20 minute drive away to Petersfield so Katherine drove us but for the actually shoot we would need to arrange lift shares for the ones who don't drive. We parked up on a road near by and walked about 15 minutes through woodland till we found the main structure left of the Gunpowder Mill. It was such an interesting structure and also the surrounding woodland area with forestry and streams was really beautiful too. Here are some images I took on my phone while there to try and get an idea of how we can use the space:

We discussed while we were here potential use of the space by the Dancers and I felt like the space was so unique and inspiring that there was so much we could get the Dancers to do there especially in terms of getting them to adapt and explore the space through their movements. Me and Katherine spent some time marking to really nice specific spots for them to dance like coming out of the corner, in the small box like spaces, on top of some of the pillars and in the long corridors. This Location Recce made us all understand a lot more Katherine's vision and also allowed us to be able to help with the development of that. It also got us really excited as I would love to be able to film in a location like this so hopefully as long as everything goes to plan we will be able to achieve something special here.