Moving with the animal research

So far we have experimented with animal movements but we haven't used the research to the limits.
Today we focused on the animal movements with Chris W. It was centered on getting the animals right. So far the animals that I have worked on with Chris has been the horses.
The original idea for the horses was to use walking sticks to imitate the legs, however doing this does not capture the stature and physicality of the animal.
therefore we needed to delve deeper into the animal.

Then I thought of how horses have been presented by humans when on stage. An example of this was "Equus" where the actors used there whole body to imitate the front half of the animal which was very effective. when seeing it live the horses looked believable and made a great impact on the audience.

(image taken from http://www.international.ucla.edu/cms/images/EQUUS%205.jpg)

The Final interpretation of the Horses



Rabbit

Working with the Chris on the rabbit was to plan a scenario for the rabbit and reasons for their actions. Therefore i experimented with the rabbit stopping starting the jumps but making it a definant "rabbit jump" rather than a jump. I looked at some videos of rabbits and picked up on the sequence jump, jump look up.

The movement of the Thistle bush and flowers



The original concept of the thistle bush was a line with fabric however the technical side of moving the fabric did seem impractical at most times and the thistle bush did lose the sense of being a bush. When speaking with Chris we discussed the movement of the bush as being a similiar movement of scholing fish, overlapping one another, and one movement, cascading into one another. I did some further research of scholes of fish and their movement in order for us to interpret our own. (consult schooling fish video botton of page)