Videography 101
Videography 101:
Optimizing Your Mobile Device for Dance Documentation
In this course, video and dance artist Clare Schweitzer will cover methods of capturing dance on video with equipment you may already have in your pocket -- your phone or tablet! Learn how to optimize your device and video setup for capturing dance movement and review the basics of settings and framing for a variety of spaces and lighting conditions, including outdoors and in theatrical settings. Follow along as Videography 101 demonstrates all you need to know about capturing high quality video using the devices you already own.
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About Your Instructor, Clare Schweitzer
Clare is a practitioner and researcher of Screendance, who is interested in exploring universal predicaments through intimate and often humorous frames. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Clare has performed with groups such as Kinetech, Garrett+Moulton and Sarah Berges Dance. She currently works as a Development/Production Associate with Dance Film SF (Formerly the San Francisco Dance Film Festival) and as a videographer/editor for Rapt Productions. She is also a co-host on Frameform, a podcast that discusses dance and film. Learn more at Clare's website: http://clareschweitzer.com.
About Another Way of Looking
Another Way of Looking (AWoL) is a project of Deborah Slater Dance Theater that aims to provide valuable resources to the performing arts community during this unprecedented time. By creating educational opportunities and connections to professionals, AWoL allows artists to develop the skill sets necessary to remain visible and vital while COVID restrictions and closures remain in place.