Blog 7. Back to planning

I found that I went straight into storyboarding too quickly, without fully planning what I wanted my themes to be and what visual story I wanted to tell. I want this to be a non-narrative piece but I don't just want a series of images strung together randomly without something that links them all and tells a small story - still remaining non-narrative. 

I think i know what my opening sequence is going to be but I am still struggling with what will link all my small ideas together. I seem to have loads of small ideas and small clips of movement that I want to use but I haven't found anything that can link them all.

The other day, I was taking things back to basics and writing out key points:

1. What are the main elements for my piece: 
TIME AND MOVEMENT. 

2. What message do I want to get across: 
WHAT EXEMPLIFIES MOVEMENT AND HOW TIME IS ALWAYS INTERTWINED WITH MOVEMENT. I.E. MOVEMENT THROUGH TIME. 

3. What are the main ABSTRACT notions of movement I want to use: 
WIND; DUST; PAINT; POWDER; DOTS; SWEAT; SHADOWS; WATER; FIRE; SAND

4. What are the main REALISABLE notions of movement I want to use: 
DANCE; EYE MOVING; CLOCK TICKING; HELIX; STRETCHING DANCER.

5. What can I use to link them all:
BEGIN WITH THE BIG BANG - THE BEGINNING OF TIME; DANCE - DANCER THROUGHOUT USING THE DIFFERENT ABSTRACT/REAL NOTIONS TO EXEMPLIFY THEM. 

POTENTIAL PROJECT TITLES:

Originally I was going to have A Dancers Day Off but it didn't really tell the story of movement through time very well and it could have been rather monotonous. Now that i have gone down the more non-narrative route but with time more involved I was thinking of something along the lines of Movement In Time. This title has a dubious meaning, the movement in time can relate to dance when you move in time to the music (there will be music throughout and the ticking of the clock) and also this title relates to how elements of movement go against time.