Artefact 2

Artefact 2

For my second artefact I decided that as my last artefact showed me that audio-visual would not be useful as a learning tool in dancing and that it would be used as an analytical tool so I decided to give 4 dance teachers and 4 dance pupils recording equipment for one week and they had to come up with 3 ways of using the camera. The reasons I had for doing this was to gain a greater understanding of how this technique can be used. The responses that I got back from this were different to what I expected, the main way that the teachers used the video was to analyse the performance of the dancers by slowing the material down or zooming in. The problems I had with this was the lack of technical ability from the teachers and pupils, it was time consuming and would be expensive. The outcome of this showed me that this may be the most appropriate way of using this equipment and most helpful to the pupils. It also showed me that this technique would have to be used an outside company to the dance school or possibly a separate department for bigger dance colleges as they would either require the knowledge of both audio-visual or dance or dance teachers would have to be trained to understand the audio-visual aspects of it. For my next artefact I am going to concentrate on how this technique could help individual students. I will film 4 individual dancers in class and then edit the material in 4 different ways:

- Edited clips of the class using on screen annotations
- Edited clips of the class using teachers comments
- Edited clips of the class altering the footage e.g. slowing down, zooming in
- Edited clips of the class for pupil to self-analyse