After meeting with Rachel and recording her dance routine, we discussed the reasoning behind her movements. She described the motions in her routine as representations of her life so far; it isn't a move-by-move story about her life, but more an interpretation of how she felt at times.
One of the main feelings she had at a pinnacle time in her life was feeling lost, but she eventually found her way, settled in to her environment and found people to talk to about her feelings. This instantly gave me ideas about how I could animate this film, using faded people in the background to show that she's looking for someone.
I could even ask another dancer to create another routine in response to this, to turn it into a story of how two people - lost in the ways of life - can find each other in the end.
Being lost ironically gives me a clear goal to aim for in developing this project; the colour scheme, staging of the characters, and music will all be influenced by this main concept, so now I can get started on creating the visual style for this piece.
Feeling lost is associated with feeling sad and alone, so using gloomy colours such as blue and grey would be appropriate to use, to give the audience a sense of the sadness the character feels. Blue is meant to be a relaxing colour, so it depends if the dance becomes frantic with a lot of sharp movements, or slow and calm as she steadily tries to find her way, as to if using blue is the best option.
Overall I feel good about the direction the project is going, I have a clear sense of the concept, which is a good start into the development of my film.
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