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Making Video Dance: A Step by Step Guide to Creating Dance for the Screen »

Book cover image of Making Video Dance: A Step by Step Guide to Creating Dance for the Screen by Katrina McPherson

Authors: Katrina McPherson
ISBN-13: 9780415379427, ISBN-10: 0415379423
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: June 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Katrina McPherson

Book Synopsis

Since the advent of digital video technology, ’dance on camera’ has become an increasingly popular, and important genre of dance.

This is the first ever ’how-to’ manual for choreographers, dancers and students who want to make dance films.

Specifically written from a personal experience of a complete lack of printed material to help beginners get started, Katrina McPherson has produced an exemplary text which combines practical help with aesthetic discussion in an anecdotal and accessible style.

Making Video Dance includes:


  • exercises to be used inside, or outside the classroom

  • a production diary

  • interviews with leading practitioners on both sides of the camera.

Also including a glossary of terms, anyone involved in making dance videos needs this helpful and remarkable book.

Table of Contents

How did we get here? : some thoughts on making dance for television
1First steps1
2Dance and the camera23
3Developing the work43
4Creating your on-screen world63
5Making strides85
6When the shoot comes117
7Light and sound on the shoot141
8Preparation for the edit157
9Choreography of the edit173
10Final stages197
11Out on the road213
12Diary : the making of The truth225

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