Eadweard Muybridge: Zoetrope

Here are the final images and video of my Zoetrope. Overall I am pleased with the outcome as it shows my initial idea of a dancer's movement through a sequence of images. If I were able to re-create this I would use a stronger version of black card to give it a more circular shape.

Shinichi Maruyama: Large scale piece

Here is a picture of my large scale chalk piece. Unfortunately, it did not turn out as well as I thought it would however, I feel it still shows what I was trying to portray. To improve this piece, I would have the dancer wear colourful clothing rather than all black. Therefore, I would have more colours to blend and work with.

Shinichi Maruyama: images

Here are images from a quick photoshoot I did of a dancer doing a sequence of leaps and turns. I have taken all 86 images onto photoshop and layered them on one another. Here is the final outcome.

I will use this image to create a large scale chalk piece inspired by Maruyama.

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Shinichi Maruyama

Maruyama was born in Japan in 1968 and moved to New York in 2003. Her project 'Nude' was about trying to capture the human body's figure in motion and showing the beauty of both within a photograph. The human form is transformed into a sculpture by combining 10,000 individual photographs of a dancer. Putting together these moments creates an image which appears to be something different to what actually exists when we see it through a human eye. This creates a connection to a human being's perception of movement within a dancer and life as a whole.

Starter Footage

Here I have filmed my Grade 6 Ballet Class as a starting point for my ideas of movement. I have put together a few of our barre and centre exercises which show how the body should move within ballet and the technique you have to work on to go further on into an examination/next grade. I will continue to upload my own personal footage onto this blog to give a variety of clips which show my development and ideas within this project.