The Screendance Practitioner’s Workbook: A Pre-Production Guide for Creativity and Organization takes artists through a step-by-step process of considerations before filming a screendance. From picking a project theme and location scouting, to creating production timelines and storyboards, it channels both creativity and organization for each project. Part journal, part guide, this book acts as a resource for artists to unleash their imagination and explore their personal aesthetics in dance filmmaking.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Project Themes and Ideas
Chapter 3 Color as Mood
Chapter 4 Location Scouting
Chapter 5 Treatments, Storyboards, and Shot Lists
Chapter 6 Production Budgets and Timelines
Chapter 7 Moving into Production and Post-production
Chapter 8 Project Reflections
Brittany
Fishel
Britt Whitmoyer Fishel is an award-winning choreographer, screendance maker, educator, and scholar. Her work examines relationships between the ephemeral nature of live performance and the permanence of dance in the digital sphere, with a research focus on the rhizomes of feminism, gender gap, access, and community. She is the director and curator of Opine Dance Film Festival, an annual, international screendance festival. Her creative work has been screened internationally in festivals and galleries and she continues to teach the practice of dance film nationally.