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A mind map created when we first got put together as a group.

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As a group we decided that we wanted to make our project about transport and other people's journey, emphasising the importance in peoples journeys not just the destination. We started off with a mind map with some vague ideas that we could then investigate if we all decided we liked it. After all our ideas ended up going in the same direction we stuck with this theme and did some research into previously made work deciding from those what elements we liked and didn't.

We then held a team meeting evaluating what needed to be done and how we wanted to achieve it. Originally we wanted to analyse pedestrianised movement and gestures and explore how they get to the final location. Each person was going to have their own location and specific prop / accessory with a black outfit. We ended up keeping the idea of each person having a specific prop but with individual outfits instead as having all black made us look too similar.

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We also came across a TikTok video filmed on public transport showing one person's emotions zoomed in on his head and shoulders, it told the story of different days and how the same emotion was shown throughout emphasised by the music and repeated line ‘nothings new’. We loved the idea of the music changing the location with the character staying in the same position on the frame so we decided to try it. However, in the performance I don't think we included enough facial expressions, so we lost the audience connection that inspired us in the TikTok.

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We wanted to explore how dance could be brought into everyday movement and researched some videos exploring this, we found the dance film made by Radio Ballet of dancers slotted into normal life performing some pedestrian movements and some dancers' movements. We explored the way that it was filmed and how there were members of the public slotted in as well as the dancers. We also took inspiration from the music in this video and how it was continuous through the movement. In the end we decided to use this filming technique of filming from a distance in our own project.

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An example of Izzys develop on the bike.

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I oversaw the choreography for this project and wanted to take inspiration from the transport we were using to create the movement, for example for the tube I watched many videos of tube stations and how the tube moved. I liked the idea of the wind getting trapped in the stations and how it made peoples clothes and hair flow, so I told this image to Millie and asked her to improvise based on this idea. The movement that came out of this process flowed and was almost quite circular which I liked as it showed how the tubes can take you anywhere and then home like a circle.

For the bike movement we struggled a lot as dancing whilst riding a bike is quite challenging so had to keep it very simple. In the end I though it would be best to use the occasional deveolp leg and head roll because we were still able to show to idea of circular movement like the tube but also kept it very pedestrian, we still showed the difference between the dancer movements and pedestrian in the other clips.

This contrasted with Tabby's walking clips as we were able to include a lot of movement without obstacles getting in the way, as a group we thought that it would look good to connect the different videos through transitions in the movement. At one point we walked past a pole and tabby had the idea to improvise on it to show her some freemovement, so I gave her a few pointers to think about and it came out brilliant. For example, we had an idea that Tabby could trip and fall to the ground with the camera following her and then the video would transition into me on the bus standing back up.

Millie was in charge of costumes and wanted me on the bus to have a watch, so I created the movement around that playing on the idea of being late and agitated by that. This included many foot taps and zooming in on my feet as well as the repeated motif of looking at my watch. I also included a lot of movements from the other method of transport to show the similar journeys that we took.

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As a group we were very excited about creating a unique performance exploring the different journeys of travelling that people could take. We wanted to connect with the audience and make them think about there travelling and focus on it as a journey not just a way to get to a destination which is why we decided to not have a final destination in our piece. I believe we successfully achieved this however we did make a few mistakes along the way.

One of these mistakes was the scheduling of the project. We found it quite different trying to link all of the sections together and some were filmed with different lighting and angles like the bus and walking sections because they were filmed on different days, next time we should schedule them to be on the same day and the same location so this idea would have worked. This mistake would have been fixed easily if we had a set schedule and someone in charge of this as it would have made filming days run smoother.

Another error we made was not paying enough attention to the emotion behind our movements which we realised after the project had been edited together. As a team we were too focused on perfecting the filming, movement and costumes that we missed the connection that we were trying to achieve from our original inspiration of the TikTok.

However I believe the choreography fitted well with the different types of transport making it clearer to the audience that we were all on different journeys making the theme clearer. The costumes who were created by Millie showed off our characters with lots of attention to detail by the way we all had individual props. The filming was clear and professional which Izzy was in charge off. And the music matched the theme perfectly especially when it followed the story of the movement when the tempo and dynamics picked up which was chosen by Tabby.

All in all I think we did a successful job of created the piece that we had envisioned.

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Together in the early stages we created a story board so we could get an idea of how we wanted the piece to flow and what key points we wanted included. I think this was a good idea as it enabled us to envision how it was going to look in the early stages of developing our piece. If we were to do it again, I think we should have made an in depth version of this once our idea was set in stone as it would have helped Jess with the order of the editing process.

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An example of the tube station choreography

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The works relationship with its audience 

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The works relationship with its audience 

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I believe that the work will be successful with the audience as it's a unique perspective of everyday activities challenging people to think about the journey and not just the destination. Some people may not like it and possible find it a bit repetitive but that's the aim we were going for as wanted to show the similarities in different people and their journeys but also the differences.

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Trying different movement ideas on set whilst filming the walking section.

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We focused a lot on trial and error for our creative process and figured out that the initial idea of holding dance positioned during normal activities which we took from our inspiration video was rather hard. When we tried this whilst filming, we discovered it was quite difficult to film as didn't fit in the frame and didn't fit with the rest of the video, however we managed to include the occasional leg hold and develop into our movement.

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The way that our video was filmed was very important to us, we had the idea to start with stop motion however in the end we worked out that it wouldn't fit in the time frame that we had given ourselves to complete the project in. In the end the videographer (Izzy) filmed many short clips of us in different locations whilst on our chosen transport and our editor (Jess) edited it all together taking inspiration from the stop motion idea.

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www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Action/Dance/Film Brussels 2006. [online] Available at: https://youtu.be/Y9ztxb4MX4U?si=plOTc7hi1c88rgFY [Accessed 16 Feb. 2024].

www.tiktok.com. (n.d.). TikTok - Make Your Day. [online] Available at: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeS1EmvU/ [Accessed 16 Feb. 2024].

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