Making Video Dance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dance for the Screen from Focal Press 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.
- Extended exploration of improvisation in the video dance-making process
- New writing about filming in the landscape
- Additional writing on developing a practice and working with scores and manifestos
- Updated information about camera use, including filming with mobile phones
- A step-by-step guide to digital non-linear editing of screen dance
- Ideas for distribution in the 21st century
- Insights into Katrina's own screen dance practice, with reference to specific works that she has directed and which are available to view online
- New and revised practical exercises
- New illustrations specially drawn for this edition
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
1. GETTING STARTED
2. DANCE AND THE CAMERA
3. DEVELOPING THE WORK
4. CREATING YOUR ON-SCREEN WORLD
5. NEXT STEPS
6. WHEN FILMING BEGINS
7. LIGHT, SOUND AND CAMERA MOVEMENT
8. PREPARING TO EDIT
9. THE CHOREOGRAPHY OF THE EDIT
10. FINAL STAGES
11. OUT IN THE WORLD
Glossary
Contributors
Bibliography
Index