We have chosen the contemporary style of dance involving a predominant male dancer alongside a female dancer to complement each other and portray emotions relating to the lyrics of our chosen song (Arcade Fire- My Body Is A Cage.)
We are aiming for the dancing to express feelings of desperation, passion (relating to love), strong emotion, isolation, fear, indignation and doubt. The male dancer has the role of the intended artist and therefore would be lip syncing the lyrics whilst dancing to justify the dance and expressed emotions.
The female dancer involvement in the video and dancing is to explain/emphasise the meaning of the lyrics to the audience. She would be representing the female who is trapping the male and preventing him from being united with the one he loves; relating to the lyrics "keeps me from dancing with the one I love". The female therefore has the role of symbolically representing the cage trapping him down with their relationship.
With this in mind, we are as a result creating an amplification category video as the connotations of the dancing and expressions of the dancers are creative and tell a story representing the meaning behind the lyrics which is ambiguous and unspecified through hearing the song alone. The performance and narrative element would grab the attention of the audience and ensure they become hooked on the interesting and unusual storyline portrayed through our intended creative approach. The ideas we currently have as a group suggest the video has a strong sense of meaning and therefore would mean the video does not fit within the 'Disjuncture' category.
It is also to an extent part of the illustration category as the idea itself is simple but the connotations are the development of the meaning.
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