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May 30, 2011
from beauty to beast and beyond
photographs from Invisible Theatre's new show PLUCKED
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May 29, 2011
countryside just above the studio
wide shot
close up
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May 23, 2011
Three Jam Goblins caught trying to hide under a black rug
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May 22, 2011
Wigs & Bras
the wardrobe department
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May 18, 2011
good when a plan comes together
I get these visions, clearly, with plenty detail, which I scribble down in various notebooks. You might remember this one:
this is how it turned out:
top shot from the tumbling sequence
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OK back to the film
Issy - a Jam Goblin
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May 15, 2011
I now interrupt this seemingly endless stream of stills from the film with a photograph of something completely different
waiting for the Jam Goblins
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May 13, 2011
Setting Innocence
Just finished setting up for the shoot next week, the INNOCENCE sequence
and this is what it looks like on camera:
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May 11, 2011
but before you can crush any whites...
...you've got to work the dancers
Toni, assistant choreographer, working with Hannah, watched by the Netherlands Wardrobe Department.
a last minute question
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May 10, 2011
and now with crushed white
Always a danger when you overexpose - you crush the whites and nothing is recoverable. Better to underexpose and crush the blacks, at least some detail is recoverable in post-production. However in this case I didn't want to recover anything of the white so I opened the aperture a couple of stops and crushed it. Just thought you might like to know
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May 08, 2011
dance for camera
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May 07, 2011
more dance
Hannah Larkum as the Girl
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May 05, 2011
The Night Bit
up the wooden stairs into the attic to where the old toys are kept
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The Dark Bit
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May 04, 2011
The Wet Bit
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May 02, 2011
as the second day of filming approaches
I'm trying to make sense of the story, but without being too literal. Got to leave gaps. Got to allow the imagination to linger. Don't answer all the questions. But answer enough for it to make sense. A tricky balance.
With a dance film it's hard to know for certain what's going to work, there are few guidelines to go by - it's not theatre, it's not simply dance and it's not just film. So I shoot more than I need, under the pretext that if you ain't shot it you ain't got it.
one of the two Acolytes
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May 01, 2011
Life and Art part II
so Aphrodite comes out the sea and they adorn her, not unreasonably, with sea jewels. As indeed have I.
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