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1 online resource (323 pages) |
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Making Video Dance- Front Cover; Making Video Dance; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; From Los Angeles to Monte Carlo by Ellen Bromberg; How Did We Get Here? Some Thoughts on Making Dance for Television by Bob Lockyer; Notes on Using the Exercises; Acknowledgements; Introduction to the Revised Edition; Introduction to the Original Edition; CHAPTER 1: GETTING STARTED; Expressed Intention; Different Starting Points; Where do Ideas Come From?; Knowing the Art Form; Starting with a Question; Make Work That Interests You; Developing the Idea |
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New Work or ReworkThe Challenge of Transformation; Collaboration in Video Dance; Finding the Words; Writing a Treatment; Exercises; CHAPTER 2: DANCE AND THE CAMERA; The Camera's Role; Framing Dance; The Rectangle Creates a Cone; The Frame Becomes a Shot; How to Describe a Shot; Some Characteristics of Shot Sizes; Camera Positions; Camera Movement; How Does Your Camera Move?; Terms Used to Describe Camera Movement; Hand-held; Filming for the Edit; Approaches to Space and Time; Exercises; CHAPTER 3: DEVELOPING THE WORK; Working with the Camera; Choreography for the Camera |
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Approaches to Filming DanceContrasting Needs; A Personal Approach; Mutual Performers: Improvisation in the Video Dance-making Process; Developing Material Through Improvisation; Using a Score; How to Devise a Score; Developing Your Own Use of Camera in Relation to Choreography; Some Further Thoughts on Filming; Storyboards and Shot Lists; From Scores to Free Improvisation; Exercises; CHAPTER 4: CREATING YOUR ON-SCREEN WORLD; Locations in Video Dance; Establishing Priorities; Space, Scale and the Appropriateness of Human Movement; Forgetting the Dance; Integrating the Space |
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Different Lenses and their EffectLens, Light and Focus; Production Design; Design Considerations; Costume Considerations; These Boots Are Made for Dancing; Hair and Make-up; The 'Un-designed' Work; Mise-en-scène Directing; Developing a Soundtrack; Who Creates the Soundtrack?; Exercises; CHAPTER 5: NEXT STEPS; Devising a Plan; The Producer's Role; People Who Might Be Involved and What They Do; Your Choice of Camera; Creative Camera Use; Devising a Budget; Cost Reports; Production Meetings; Locations: Some Practical Pointers; Recces; Making it Formal; The Illusion of Locations |
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Planning the Filming DayCall Sheets; Exercise; CHAPTER 6: WHEN FILMING BEGINS; Who's Boss?; A Different Take; Engaging with What You Are Seeing; The Shape of a Filming Day; Setting a Shot; Ready to Go; How Much Rehearsal?; Calling 'Action!'; A Director's Perspective; The Dancer's Experience; The Shoot as Performance; Directing On-screen Performance; The Performers' Perspective; Offering Feedback; Working with a Monitor; Reviewing Material; Listening to Others and Knowing Your Mind; CHAPTER 7: LIGHT, SOUND AND CAMERA MOVEMENT; Working with Light; The Biggest Lamp of All; Some Lighting Ideas |
| Summary |
Making Video Dance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dance for the Screen is the first workbook to follow the entire process of video dance production: from having an idea, through to choreographing for the screen, filming and editing, and distribution. In doing so, it explores and analyses the creative, practical, technical, and aesthetic issues that arise when making screen dance. This rigorously revised edition brings the book fully up to date from a technical and aesthetic point of view, and includes: An extended exploration of improvisation in the video dance-making processNew writing about filming in the landscapeAdditional writing on developing a practice and working with scores and manifestosUpdated information about camera use, including filming with mobile phonesA step-by-step guide to digital non-linear editing of screen danceIdeas for distribution in the 21st centuryInsights into Katrina's own screen dance practice, with reference to specific works that she has directed and which are available to view onlineNew and revised practical exercisesNew illustrations specially drawn for this edition |
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Camera Movement |
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Dance in motion pictures, television, etc. -- Production and direction -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Video recordings -- Production and direction -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Video recordings -- Production and direction.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
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Dance.
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Dance filmmaking.
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Dance films.
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Dance movies.
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Film making.
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Film production.
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Katrina McPherson.
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Screen.
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Screendance.
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Screen dance.
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Video.
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Video dance.
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video dance production.
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Video recordings -- Production and direction
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Handbooks and manuals
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315452647 |
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1315452642 |
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