Jobs Of The Muscles

30/01/2016

The is 3 types of muscles:

• Cardiac- Pumps heart

• Involuntary/Smooth-Peristalsis system. Involuntary is when you have no control over muscles. 

• Voluntary- Voluntary is when you have control over muscles.

Muscles only contract and release, they can not extend. When muscles contract, they become shorter and thicker. Muscles subscribe to the ''All or nothing'' law- this means that muscles can contact fully, or not at all.

Muscles have four different jobs:

• Agonist-  Prime mover/ Contracting muscles (If a muscles contacts, the opposite muscle has to relax)

• Antogonist- Relaxing muscles

• Stabiliser- These are small muscles that stabilise the joints that helps keep alignment straight 

• Fixater- The fixater allows you to dance accurately when doing the right movements. 

Postral muscles:

This is mainly the biggest muscles that secures and holds you alignment  and when used properly, it can prevent you from being tired and aching.

This means that you can't contract a little, you have to contract fully. However, to make a stronger contraction, you have to use more fibres.

Session 3

25/01/2016

Today, we made a change in choreography and took out a few moves like the flip as it looked messy and it was hard to practice without one of the dancers which was absent.

We will be meeting as a whole group on Friday at 2:00pm to mess around with hair and make up and also to hopefully start filming and taking some shots.

Because we have so much dance material, we can now finally start recording some shots of us and hopefully finish before we have our Easter break. All I need to do is go online have a look at some make up ideas for the video.

Below, is the sheet that I had to fill out in class today answering questions of today's class. It is about us answering questions of what we achieved today and what kind of errors that we picked up on and how we dealt and over come them.

Session 2

18/01/2016

Today we managed to come up with a lot of material for our choreography piece for the music video, we just need to make in cleaner and fit into the time we have of the song.

At 11am, the singers came down to look at what we have got and they was pretty happy with it. One of the singers that we are collaborating called Alex, said could we do it 2 times faster then the original speed we are doing it at. The reasons being is because he said it would be a nice effect to slow down and try out when editing the video.

We also sat down as a group and discussed what roles we are and what are job is.

Tammy and Grace are production management.

I am the hair and make-up designer and costume and dancer.

Cahlighyah is the choreographer and dancer.

Tashan is the costume designer and hair and make-up and dancer.

Alex is the filmer and editor.

Ronnie is a dancer.

Below, is a video of the choreography we came up with today:

Because Ronnie was absent today, we had to work around the choreography without her.

Below, is paper work that we filled out today and is about how we got on today, what went well and the errors that we came across. For example, a change in choreography and formation.

Session 1

15/01/2016

Today we met up with our team and was looking for location spots to film our dance scenes. Below are some places we have in mind:

*pics of locations*

We liked the idea of the sun shining in the background as it would look effective. The only problem we came across was that because its still cold and still in the winter period, it will be hard to predict when the sun will be out.

We liked the viewing on top of the platform but didn't get time to take a proper picture on top of it. It was a really nice view and a few shots would work well up there. The only problem we came across was other people wanting to come up and look at the view. 

 We also like the idea of the cage- this would give a great effect of breaking free and links to the song nicely.

Inside of the cage is a swing and we was just thinking to go crazy in the cage and run about.

Before we went out, we was also brain storming some ideas about costume and make-up designs.

I came up with a body art effect on half of the face and make it match the mood and setting of the song. Because we are filming the introduction of the song, we had to think of what we want to tell and show the viewers. The intro is quite long and the only lyrics in our section we have is '' I dare you to fight, for their evil right''.

The song has a feeling to it, that a fight is going to kick off or a change/warning is happening.

It's about freedom and to do as you please.

We was trying to think of symbols that could be drawn on the face for body art that would relate to the song by didn't come up with anything but using a lot of glitter on the face and hair. We wanted to use a load of glitter because it can be symbolized as something good is going to take place and/or the person in the music video is going through a change and he's true self is starting to come out and sparkle. Because our budget is low, we was planning to just be all blackout in clothing and I also feel that it looks more professional. For our hair, we are going to keep it simple and have it in an messy bun so we all pretty much look similar.

I came up with an idea to start the introduction by having us all together (getting filmed) and  spray painting a wall saying ''Stand Up'' and the hear police Syrians and start running away. I chose the word ''Stand Up'' because it is lyrics from the song and also, we want to get the message across.

The next process now is to chose a space where we want to do our dance to.

Grace (who is in my group) came up with an idea to have an acting scene at the start with some words in and so she is going to make a short script that will fit in perhaps with the graffiti idea.

The dancers of the group (Me, Tashan, Ronnie and Cahliyah) have came up with a few moves and ideas for the video and what kind of shots they would like. An Ariel shot would be a nice idea as you can see how the all emphasis there movements and communicate with each other.

Below, is a video of us coming up with some ideas:

Below is paper work in class today: