Preliminary Notes before first contact with local tea dances

Tea dance with neil gibbons – 1-3pm Friday

The grange m11 3tq                                         rochdale Tuesday meeting!!!! Half 12!!

07817695918

jagers dance Thursdays 1-3.30

earl mill ol8 2pf

01616524547

For over 45s, Manchester N.C.D.S.W

St Matthews church hall m32 9aj               7:30 stretford!

0161 865 1750

tea dance

Sheffield city hall

0114 223 3740

old bell hotel derby

01332 723 090

introduction – who I am – why im calling.

Ask about the tradition of tea dances

Ages of the people who attend

Are they couples, singles, divorced, widowed etc.

Whats so special about the tea dances

How they’ve changed over the years

The future of tea dances.

Rochdale town hall Tuesday 1:15

Heywood civic monday 12:30 -11

Layered interviews footage and archive footage.

Interview with neil

Interview with nonny

Stock vintage footage

Footage from Sunday

Cutie and the Boxer

Cutie and the Boxer is a film following the lives of Ushio and Noriko Shinohara. Made by Zachary Heinzerling in 2013 it focuses on the 40 year marriage of the two Japanese artists. The key themes being love, relationships and power. A young Art student Noriko falls for Ushio at a young age and the film displays the relationship dynamic between the two.

This is a film that inspired the plan to look at the relationship between one of the couples attending the dance. For me this documentary touches on the keys themes I want to explore within my film come the end of the year. 

Geometric & Floral Pattern/UV Sportswear Senses

The two videos below are the results of my work with Amber Philips a Textiles student at MMU. She is developing a type of sportswear as part of her work in her final year and asked me to do the technical directing side of the film.  

For this shoot we used a projector to put the image over the model. I had previously worked with projecting over people as part of my unit X in first year so was excited to use the knowledge I had gained and apply it into another format. I set up the projector at various distances so Amber could see how her designs looked at a range of sizes on the model. I also helped out with the camera settings to make sure there was no issues with how it came out in post-production.

This was a new experience for me as I have never filmed with UV lights and was unsure how well the footage would come out. After setting up the UV light and a large amount of tweaking of the camera settings we came out with something that I was very happy to be involved with.

These two shoots were quite experimental and I really enjoyed being involved, it was nice to take and apply knowledge from past work and also a lot of fun trying out something I had never before done. The two films look great (credit to Amber) and I am very pleased I hoped on board and was able to help at this stage of the process.