The Brief

In our first lecture of 'Stories and Spaces' we were given the brief to make an
installation for Bournemouth Pavilion with the theme, 'The Story of
Hip-hop'. It was hopefully to be exhibited for 6 weeks and this was very exciting and allowed our group to immediately
start juggling with ideas around the theme of hip-hop.

We were also given a talk by an experienced dancer, Rachel, who seemed more than happy to put us in contact with troops and dancers to help us out.

Our first step was to assign roles to those who could excel at certain things. We are all very comfortable and very happy with our roles. They are:

• Director – Louis Dady
• Assistant Director – Alex Torrens
• Production Manager – Kelly Griffiths
• Production Assistant – Leanne Kent
• Location manager – Leanne Kent
• Researcher – Anna Clayton
• Project Mapper – Alex Torrens
• Assistant Project Mapper – Robin Lambriex
• 1st Camera – Robin Lambriex
• 2nd Camera – Alex Torrens
• Sound Recordist – Harrison Twinn
• Assistant Recordist – Sophie Arnold
• Sound designer – Harrison Twinn
• Editor – Lucy Fitts
• Assistant Editor – Anna Clayton
• Creative Documenter – Josh Pemberton
• Assistant Creative Documenter – Sophie Arnold

I was assigned the role of Head Researcher and Assistant Editor.

We knew straight away that we wanted to film a youth dancer, in order to introduce the next generations of dancers.

Each of us went away and did some research into the field of hip-hop, as
none of us have much knowledge into what it actually involved.

Rachel told us that there are three main types of hip-hop:

• Popping
• Locking
• B-boying (breakdancing)

Rachel also showed us footage of some people she has met or taught including a young boy called Theo, who loved to dance likeMichael Jackson. Here he is on Got To Dance: 




Theo was our main inspiration for wanting to use a young boy to dance. It also breaks a gender stereotyping that not all young boys want to do what are considered more 'masculine' sports.

Some of our 10-man crew went to visit the Pavilion to see the spaces available to project on. 

 

Photos by Louis Dady

These are a couple of photos taken by the Director of our crew on the visit to the Pavilion. It shows that we do not have much space to work with so when we develop our ideas, we must keep this in mind.

Overall, we are really excited to get this project underway!