Week 3
This week we spent more time plotting our separate journeys, keeping in mind gaps where the story could jump between us in later editing.
At the beginning of the week we plotted the Survey that will help us gather information about people's reactions and reactions to lockdown and isolation. You can find the questionnaire HERE. This information will directly inspire the movements for the dance and the real-life scenes we will include.
I am using this week to figure out how my mind palace of quarantine creativity looks like. As Joe is researching the physical implications of lockdown, I am turning towards the mental. For me, the last year has been a mental toil, rather than a struggle with isolation. I am comfortable with staying at home for prolonged periods of time and sort of used to it. I had a very lonely childhood and have managed to adapt to severe boredom. Meaning, I am around 70% certain I don't experience boredom, just lack of imagination. But having a world pandemic and its economic effect pushed me through some tough couple of months. It was like crawling through a tunnel that doesn't have an end. There is no light. It is like a sewer, crawling in water, the drain of my own toxic thoughts. I wanted to use Joe's concept as a starting point, thus water is the logical opposite.
My journey
It starts on the train, as does Joe's, however, he stays on it and mechanically arrives at his creative space. I fall off the train, into a bottomless pit. Have a minute max dance while falling (while Joe is travelling on the train). I land in water, suddenly, without the visual warning for the spectator.
Instead of sinking, I fall out of the water on the bottom side. Everything is dark. I can't really see any of my surroundings, total spacial unawareness.
Unlike Joe, I don't jump between reality and mind. I am stuck in my head. A tunnel appears. I follow it and fall into what looks like Joe's world but when I land, I transfer elements from my world to his. Together, we have reached a space of combined imagination = creativity.
Final simultaneous dance piece. In that space, his falls fall down and I fill the space with light.
Simulacra - NOWNESS
Something I watched this week that inspired me.
Week 4
This week we made a Google Doc and tried get some ideas on 'paper'.
We are working on developing and detailing the separate sections of the piece, starting to think about editing, colours and how to intersect the storylines and what will work best for our research.
We divided some jobs between us. Joe is the craftsman of the VR; both of us build the scrip and colour palette; I will be responsible for the editing, music and colour-correction in post-production; also I might be choreographing the first and last dance that we are together.
A friend of mine agreed to help us with the music. We'll get to composing around Week 7.
Some graphic and aesthetic test runs for my tunnel.
MAP (score) of the stations
This is the skeleton of our script
