VIDEO SAMPLE 1
The first video (CryWheel work samples CAMP 2020) contains three (3) separate samples. These three are meant to demonstrate mainly the instructional/physical component. NOTE: The viewer is intended to follow along with the exercises/instructions in the sample. Please do try them, I promise they are not difficult or scary.
The first (0:00-1:40) is a visualization meditation for gentle confusion. You’ve tried gratitude and loving-kindness meditations, now try gentle confusion! This is a sample of how guided meditation and visual stimulus can be paired to achieve an emotion.
The second (1:41-2:48) is part of a warm-up, generating some heat in your hands. This is a sample to show how repetitive gestures are be given different contexts which change their meanings and evoke feelings.
The third (2:49-end) is a warm-up for patience. If you only follow along with one of these, make it this one. This is a sample which combines simple breathing exercises and physical motions to create a situation which tests/warms up your patience.
VIDEO SAMPLE 2
This second video sample (CryWheel sample tiktok) is a better example of tone and concept. It was made in an effort earlier this year to translate the concept to TikTok. These samples were shot and edited on my iPhone6S in Adobe Premiere Rush, and filmed entirely on location in my 4th floor narrow apartment. Due to downstairs neighbors and furniture, I am unable to present any of the more aerobic or active sequences as I do not have the space to both film them and move around simultaneously. Instead, I have included my working playlist and emotional setlist as well as a reference image of the studio who I am aping to help establish the overall tone of the show and the audio/visual components.
WORKING PLAYLIST AND EMOTIONAL SETLIST (with links)
The music chosen for CryWheel is intentionally busy and confusing, but I still think it slaps. It is composed mostly of remixes and mash-ups.
CryWheel exercises are rooted in four major categories: curiosity, memory, excitement, patience. Within those categories, more subtle emotional states to be explored include: crushing, snooping, competing with yourself, competing with others, cheating, trying something new, anticipating, looking back in anger, wearing rose tinted glasses, maturing, and controlling your temper, to name a few.
Some songs that have already been paired with specific exercises or context:
Ariana Grande X Stranger Things - Netflix and Chill (crushing, flirting, anticipating)
The Romantics “What I Like About You” - Cheerleading (for yourself or others) is hard. Exercises based on my high school cheerleading kick line warm up.
Neil Cicierega “Avril” - Controlling your temper, featuring exercises pulled in from the source video of the hook sample, this iconic aerobics video.
Formation - Fitness and Workout Version - The only thing to unpack to this cover is White Idiocy. (This is the only Spotify link.)
Set-up
This is a photo of Monster Cycle Limelight - once all those bikes are out of there, it is basically a black box theatre with a tiny little stage. There are two projection screens on either side of the pink bike in front (which is the instructor’s bike). CryWheel would be ideally set up like this, but without the bikes, and likely with many fewer people allowed in the space at once.