The warm light seeped through the trees onto the beautiful
flat mossy rock I had had a dance on before, it was stunning! For this film I
set myself a movement score, circular, linear and liquid as well as responding
as though dancing organically with the drone. I had a ball doing this, engaging
with the drone quite literally and at times offering a smile to the phantom,
which is the name Leon and Josie have given it. My only regret is the end,
which I so carelessly gave in and didn't perceive what effect this might have
on the edit process.
Leon and Josie were happy with the take and we wanted to do
another site, so after gathering some supplies and lathering up with sun block,
headed to the river here at Bundanon. We found a beautiful headland of a small
river beach and decided to do some water filming, exploring slow ground level
movements as the drone hovered over, first with camera facing the river and
then looking straight down. It was boiling hot, so I was relieved to be in the
water, though he sun in my eyes facing straight up, was piercing. These takes
were both incredibly fun, again aware of the drone, but also exploring the
sense of the watery environment I was in. At time Leon
Arriving back we peeked at the footage which looked awesome,
so stoked to do another session with the drone, Leon and Josie. We chatted about
collaboration and had some well deserved coffee and omelette (thanks Leon
I was eager to get into my day and begin to tackle editing some
footage of my site dances here at Bundanon. choosing some music, which I think
always helps in the flow of an edit, I spent a good 2 hours starting to compile
these sites, spliced with rehearsal footage of me working the Dot studio. A
nice contrast I think and representative of my experiences here.
This afternoon/evening I worked in the studio to record and edit
some audio and movement for the joy component of the emotional place scene that
is still well in development. It was an interesting ride to access physical states of
joy, vulnerability and love within a 5 minute section and I am interested to
see how this reads to an audience.
With night setting in I was able to use the projector to play
with the head torch film material from the takes I took on Thursday and Monday
nights. Thursday nights footage was unusable and decided to stick with one
torch light anyway and test how I could let the projected torch/dot of moving
light manipulate my movements and how I might interact with it in the space. Further
experimenting to be done but found some interesting physical responses like
blowing it, jumping over it, and letting it pull me around.
Finally I did a quick recap of some projection scenes,
making use of the dark, as tomorrow I hope to film a proper run of all the
scenes for my record and feel prepared for the showing in Canberra
Time has just flown and can't believe it's my last full day here
tomorrow, and although I have achieved a lot I feel as though I'm just starting
to get into it.
If only more time, and well I guess there always is.
being joyful?
river site dance
amphitheatre rock with drone
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