RE: need advice about shooting dance with video

From: Heidi Shikles (Heidi.Shikles@asu.edu)
Date: 03/27/01


I'd love to hear any comments about this as well, so could you address them
to the whole list?

Thank you!

Heidi

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> From: 	Todiane4@aol.com
> Reply To: 	dance-tech@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Sent: 	Monday, March 26, 2001 6:30 PM
> To: 	dance-tech@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: 	need advice about shooting dance with video
> 
> I have a dance solo that is performed with a video backdrop that I want to
> 
> document on video to apply for funding, venues, etc.  I want the product
> to 
> show the dancer and the choreography, as well as their relationship to the
> 
> video projection backround, and I want it to be as cinematically
> interesting 
> as possible.  For those with experience in doing such a project, I wonder
> if 
> you can share with me what pitfalls to avoid, any tips re:lighting, camera
> 
> angles, editing, etc. that made the outcome successful for you.  
> For instance, Doug Rosenberg--I thought the document of your piece about
> the 
> man dying of AIDS was beautiful; of course, the piece itself was
> beautiful, 
> but I am now asking myself if there were also elements about how the piece
> 
> was shot and edited for documenting purposes that helped to frame the
> piece 
> in its best light, so to speak.
> Thanks in advance for your time and help on this one!
> 
> Diane
> 
> 



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