Joanna Flude Lisa Rogers Emily Wilson Craig Worrall

Our chosen director is… Born in An established British director for many years. Has worked as a director, writer, choreographer, dancer, composer and performed in films.

Our original idea is to produce a dance film based on… Summary Set in Europe the year before WW2 started, the Man Who Cried is the story of a young Jewish woman and her relationships with a Roman Gypsy man, a Russian dancer and an Italian opera singer. The film expresses cultural differences, struggle, loss, love, betrayal and friendship.

Summary London landmarks are used within this 1986 film. The short piece shows the relationship between the government and the arts. “A silent comedy might be, with bodily gesture and dance doing the work of sketching in the characters and moving the story along.” (Screen Online, 2007)

Images from Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photographs of Paris in the thirties and Josef Koudelka’s portraits of Gypsies in Eastern Europe formed a visual starting point for the film.

“A film can start from an image, a word, a feeling, a sound. In this instance, the original impulse came from music. And not from one single source but from many; from opera, gypsy music, and Klezmer.” Screen online, 2007 We intend to use the gypsy music from The Man Who Cried as a stimuli for the dance phrases in our dance film because music was such an inspiration to Sally Potter also

Suzie is the main character in the film. She is a Jewish woman, the heroine. She is lost, driven into silence as her language is taken away. Cesar is the conduit into the world of Gypsies. Cesar is from a culture where family and community are still alive despite the war and where the aliveness is communicated through music. Suzie was inspired by Cesar a culture where family and community are still alive and not destroyed like her Jewish culture was being.

The 1 st film is based on Suzie in the present looking at her pictures taken during the war. Example: The 2nd explores Suzie's memories of her encounters with Cesar and his gypsy family at the time when the pictures were taken. Example:

Choreography: Dance consist of sharp angular movements to contrast against the background. Intimacy between man and women when dancing. (London Story)Gypsy Culture & music. Narrative (Man Who Cried) Filming: Close up on dress and curves in body. Silhouette close ups. Facial close ups. Close ups on detail e.g. photograph. Overhead shots. (London Story) Editing: The still image (photograph)is projected onto background. Shots in sepia (London Story) The blackout effect when man and women get sensual (Man Who Cried)

Evaluation of our progress and how we came to realise our Ideas through moving images. Changing idea. Suzie being an older women. More dancers for gypsy group shot.

Screen Online (March, 2007) Sense of Cinema (March, 2007) Videos Midnight underground [videorecording]. London suite. (Channel 4, 1993) London Story by Sally Potter. UK: Illuminations. Potter, S [videorecording] (1998) Tango Lesson. UK: Artificial Eye. Potter, S [videorecording] (1994) Orlando. London: Electric Pictures. Potter, S [videorecording] (2000 )The man Who Cried. UK: