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The activity being studied is Salsa Dancing. The first stage was the generation of
plans for the Film space (fig.7 & 8) where the space between a couple dancing was
recorded with a series of lines. This exercise was then repeated with each couple and
the spaces captured were linked. The time frame for these recordings was 10seconds.
The development of these plans into three-dimensional constructs and finally into
a digital model took a further three stages. Firstly the plan was taken into the third
dimension by projecting a height on to the lines made; the static images taken from
the movie were utilised to allow the correct elevation to be applied. The next stage
was to translate the lines in to extruded forms. The last stage was to apply colours
to each separate movement recorded. The colours selected were abstractions of the
sensual and poetic nature of the activity.
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Figure 9 illustrates all of these elements enmeshed, lit from within the form and
overlaid on a context; in this instance a still image from the movie was layered in
as the background. The fourth figure represents a further study carried out by the
student. This intriguing and evocative expression of the activity was generated from
the digital model, where six of the sections and plans that were created are layered
upon one another.
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The three programmes required the delivery of tutoring to be reconsidered, with the
‘group tutorial’ emerging as a successful learning and teaching tool, this allowed a dis-