Feedback Week One.

This feedback was initially to discuss my research and what topics and/or ideas I had for FMP.

Discussing through my research there was a lot of commonalities in what I chose to research, mostly an artistic approach such as listening to an album to try and explore ideas of themes and styles of filming through looking at McQueen and Made of Stone.

Jo and I then discussed a couple of ideas, one being a drama that was narrative and dialogue driven to which Jo introduced me to a film called ‘Festen’ a film that uses Dogme 95 to which follows a secret in one location. This interested me because Dogme 95 follows strict rules in their filmmaking such as all shots must be hand-held, which is something id like to explore as I admire the raw filmmaking style.

My next idea was more of visual narrative about a hit an run. This would challenge me to work with special equipment and colour grading as well as creating a believable story with little to no dialogue. Jo explained that that would be fees-able as id only have to work with one actor and could explore more techniques in pos-production to make it look interesting. However. creating a narrative with suspense comes with its difficulties and I would have to really research into films with the same idea.

My idea for a dance piece is something I feel I could really work with, as i was explaining to Jo my idea for a performance piece she explained a film created about the Royal Ballet’s piece called ‘The Cellist’ and how performance art is interesting to a viewer.

When I discussed my idea to Phil the following day, he wanted me to focus more into what my theme would be and how a location and dance piece would fit to a theme, I explained i was waiting on my artists song to decided what theme I wanted to focus on.

Overall the feedback was very helpful with Jo and Phil advising me to play to my strengths and to look into different themes and styles regarding contemporary dance pieces. I will start to look for themes and styles to fit my piece my sketchbook for visual inspiration and updating my blog of any useful content that will help me develop an in-depth understanding of what I want to achieve.