Last week we had been using maps and that began to mix into our conversation of using the body, we discussed ideas and different ways we could incorporate both ideas of the body and maps cohesively and proffessionally and we came up with a name 'body mapping' that rang a bell in our minds as it was catchy and represented our main focus clearly. We strted to delve onto the topic of where in london had the best cafes and that lead onto a conversation about the different types of food that we had experienced around london so we started to then think about making a map of typical cusines you can find in different areas. This lead into a conversation about the memories we had experienced around london and maybe mapping these events (eg where you got that scar on your hand, where you received your first kiss, first time you got drunk...) into a life size cutout of a human body.
I had the idea of creating a rap song about these experiences and filming them in a music video style, visiting all of the places from the map and making them in to the video, i wanted to pay homage to a Hip-Hop group called the Pharcyde and shoot the video in reverse which i thought would give a nice added style to it so i showed it to Jake and he loved the idea.
Our idea infuses the body being represented as a site and the 'site' in a locational sense, with the perspective of us (the bodies) and how we reflect on the experiences that took place at those sites.
Heres the video 'Drop' by the Pharcyde, classic 90's Hip-Hop at it's finest.
We also discussed the iea to use sounds from the environment at those places to create the music track or 'beat for our music video which is a exemplary way in which to make our project more site specific and we got this idea by drawing inspiration from our tutors video which is also up on Youtube in which she also uses a sound-scape, unfortunately i couldn't get the thumbnail to be displayed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hEUNTkD55M
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