DANCE FILMMAKING CLASS Curriculum
Class 1. Background history on screendance: This lesson explores the history of screendance, discussing the influence of dance on photography and cinema. In this class, students will be encouraged to experiment and play with ideas, guiding students with fun activities to start the creative ideas flowing. We will also discuss how collaborating is crucial to making screendance works, focusing on teamwork, communication and negotiating skills.
Class 2. Screen art and language techniques:
Screen art and the placing, cutting and pasting through space and creating new subjective stages to dance on. The art of screen language will be broken down and students will be asked to analyse past screendance works.
Class 3. Screen art and screen language: technical breakdown and presenting. Creating new scientific and experimental ways of observing and reconstructing the movement of the body in time and space. Exploring storytelling through cinematic techniques and employing it to screendance storytelling.
Class 4. Camera operations: with a professional cinematographer. Learning the mechanics and operations of a camera, and ways to tell a story. Students will learn how a professional film industry RED camera operates and what you need to know when shooting your own screendance works.
Class 5. Writing for the screen: Screen bodies - transfiguring, deterritorializing, recontextualizing the body and its movement, and creating a dancing spectator body. We will discuss how to approach writing/choreographing for screen & discusses the unique screendance process.
Class 6. Lighting methodologies: Learn 20 cinematic essential lighting setups, from natural lighting to full extensive lighting. This class will be a breakdown of all technical arrangements and learn simple tricks but affective tricks to make their screendance works cinematic.
Class 7. Sound techniques & methodologies: Students will learn the power of sound and how it creates another dimension. Exploring notions of ‘found sounds’, and learn the technical explanations to recording sound for their screendance works.
Class 8. Editing techniques & methodologies: In this class students will begin editing their work, learning ways to create rhythm using their intuition. Understanding how to cut rhythm and ways to compose narratives through cutting time.
Class 2. Screen art and language techniques:
Screen art and the placing, cutting and pasting through space and creating new subjective stages to dance on. The art of screen language will be broken down and students will be asked to analyse past screendance works.
Class 3. Screen art and screen language: technical breakdown and presenting. Creating new scientific and experimental ways of observing and reconstructing the movement of the body in time and space. Exploring storytelling through cinematic techniques and employing it to screendance storytelling.
Class 4. Camera operations: with a professional cinematographer. Learning the mechanics and operations of a camera, and ways to tell a story. Students will learn how a professional film industry RED camera operates and what you need to know when shooting your own screendance works.
Class 5. Writing for the screen: Screen bodies - transfiguring, deterritorializing, recontextualizing the body and its movement, and creating a dancing spectator body. We will discuss how to approach writing/choreographing for screen & discusses the unique screendance process.
Class 6. Lighting methodologies: Learn 20 cinematic essential lighting setups, from natural lighting to full extensive lighting. This class will be a breakdown of all technical arrangements and learn simple tricks but affective tricks to make their screendance works cinematic.
Class 7. Sound techniques & methodologies: Students will learn the power of sound and how it creates another dimension. Exploring notions of ‘found sounds’, and learn the technical explanations to recording sound for their screendance works.
Class 8. Editing techniques & methodologies: In this class students will begin editing their work, learning ways to create rhythm using their intuition. Understanding how to cut rhythm and ways to compose narratives through cutting time.
