FAQ #2: What kinds of shots do you need?
Most people have come to expect a wide static (nonmoving) shot of a show in rehearsals & performance documentation, but there is so much more you can do when documenting movement. Ri talks about what you need to know about tracking shots and more in today's FAQ.
FAQ series all week with Ri on 🎥what to ask your videographer BEFORE your show!🎥 This is geared towards dancers, theater makers, and performing artists, but applies to anyone who might need documentation of any kind of work/creative project. 🎭🩰💃🎬🎶
What else are you curious about? Anything I missed? What is helpful for you to know?
There are more Q&As headed your way this week, covering topics like: kinds of location, length of show, lighting, what happens in the performance, projections and media in a show.
✨More Q&As coming this month: 2 camera shoots and editing!✨
#FAQSeries #DancesWithTech
#VideographyTips
#AskYourVideographer
#PerformanceDocumentation
#Dancers #TheaterArtists
#CreativeProjects
#BehindTheScenes
#SoundAndLighting
#ShowPlanning
#TimeIsValuable
#VideoProduction
#CreativeSupport
#TwoCameraShoot
#EditingMagic
FAQ series all week with Ri on 🎥what to ask your videographer BEFORE your show!🎥 This is geared towards dancers, theater makers, and performing artists, but applies to anyone who might need documentation of any kind of work/creative project. 🎭🩰💃🎬🎶
In today's FAQ, Ri discusses:
📍 location: inside, outdoor, size of space
🎤sound(board), and audio capture
🌟length of show + intermission
🕒valuing the time of videographer
What else are you curious about? Anything I missed? What is helpful for you to know?
There are more Q&As headed your way this week, covering topics like: kinds of shots, lighting, what happens in the performance, projections and media in a show.
✨More Q&As coming this month: 2 camera shoots and editing!✨
#FAQSeries
#VideographyTips
#AskYourVideographer
#PerformanceDocumentation
#Dancers #TheaterArtists
#CreativeProjects
#BehindTheScenes
#SoundAndLighting
#ShowPlanning
#TimeIsValuable
#VideoProduction
#CreativeSupport
#TwoCameraShoot
#EditingMagic
...and we keep the beat going. We always enjoy filming the dress rehearsal of BlakTinx Dance Fest so we can get closer to the action with one camera, and document the show with a wide shot on the second camera, without worry about interrupting the show for the audience. Two camera shoots help us make exciting promo videos like this one (edited by the talented @bayliemacrae! filmed by Ri Lindegren and Dean Saifullin!)
Check out the highlights from BlakTinx Dance Festival 2024, celebrating Black and Latinx choreographers with local AZ talent and guest artists from LA! @blaktinxdance
Featuring this fantastic lineup of artists:
Juls Tarango @julstarango
Aisha & Stephen @aishabutterscotch @stephenandaisha
Rayshawn Watkins @jaquay.w
Justin Moore @adjustingking
Steven Redondo @steven_round
Edson "House" Magana & Mr. Groove @bboyhouse @mrgroovefsc
Emani "Lotus" Spencer
Juan Carlos Garcia Gutierrez @prince.ofchaos
Ali Adelis @ali.adelis
Angela Bass @angelarbass
Primera Generacion Dance Collective @primerageneraciondance
Learn more via blaktinafestival.com
Ri had a blast documenting this hybrid dance performance/performance art/live event by The Ladies at the Moxy Hotel last year. Ri set up wide shot that kept running to capture the action downstairs/at certain heavily trafficked areas and then ran around following the action with a second camera on a gimbal.
Dances With Tech makes it work on budget with a skeleton crew (although we would LOVE to hire multiple videographers to capture the magic).
The Ladies are still running around in 90's mom dancing fashion - check out their work @danceladiesdance by @yesandproductionsaz
Have a unique performance you need captured or promo content to make it pop? Send a DM or email info[at]danceswithtech.com
#azdance #performancevideography #DanceFloorDreams #dance #azdancers #VideographyMagic #documentation #arizona
Who knew dance floors could be heat sealed so you don't trip over the grip tape? Or that there are so. many. kinds. of dance floors!? As a videographer, half the fun is learning the stories behind the story your client wants to share with the world. We can't claim to be dance floor experts by any means, but we definitely have a new appreciation for the importance of quality flooring thanks to @harlequinfloors.
We had a great time working with ASU dance students and faculty to create this custom promo video this past spring. It was a joy to work with ASU student dancers @jimenafperez (undergrad) and @movesbyjp (grad), faculty @thesholabareexperience and @nicolebradleybrowning, and the media team at @asumusicdancetheatre.
From every step to every spin, we’ve got your moves covered! 🎥✨ Let's create magic for your next project! #DanceFloorDreams #VideographyMagic #BringYourVisionToLife"
Today is the LAST DAY to register for the final dance film workshop series.
Happening tmw @cazodancecenter in Mesa, AZ!
Sound & light play lab 1-3pm
Guided dance film jam session 3:30-5:30pm
No FOMO....register now!
www.danceswithtech.com/workshop
What do you want to know about sound and lighting for video and dance filmmaking?
Where do you find hope? How does the transition from grief to hope feel in your body? Tell us your thoughts, and any moments/images that stuck out to you from this dance film!
We had so much fun last Saturday learning about dance filmmaking together and finding ways to connect breath and conscious awareness of being in our bodies to filming practices. There are 2 workshops remaining this Saturday 8/31 and some slots left to jump into this playful & intentional dance filmmaking practice with sound, light, and movement. Join in ASAP www.danceswithtech.com/workshop!
Quick recap:
There were 2 workshops, Dance Film Crash Course and Camera + Movement Scores Play Lab. The attendees were having so much fun creating a dance film together they folded break time into more filming time and we extended the final workshop by 30 minutes to keep moving and exploring embodied filmmaking techniques together.
Attendees made a minimal-edits-needed dance film (that I retroactively titled "where hope is found" based on our group conversation). It was inspired by the art piece in the concrete grid of @cahokiaphx. 7 people worked together to take turns filming and directing their scene from the storyboard on 1 camera phone. I guided participants through ideating possible simple story and character ideas, directed traffic to keep the cameras rolling, and jumped in to offer advice or ideas as needed. Otherwise everyone played with their own ideas and approaches within the collective idea. We had first time dance filmmakers (and first time storyboarders!) as well as some seasoned camera folks and choreographers.
Next, attendees tried on different breathing patterns (coming out of a yoga/pranayama practice) and took time out from busy schedules to connect to their own bodies. From this place of breath and grounding, they moved into exploring how their own bodies could transition from floor to standing, hold and release tension, support durational camera filming, and most importantly, how
