Day 6: Augmented Reality with Marlon Barrios Solano

This past Friday, we were visited by guest artist Marlon Barrios Solano of dance-tech.tv who taught a class on augmented reality and how it can be applied to dance, giving us an opportunity to look at something within the intersection of dance and technology besides screen dance. After a group discussion, some improvisation exercises, and watching a few examples of dance-related AR (found here, here, and here), we got to create our own little AR project, which can be seen by scanning the image below with a smart phone or tablet using dance-tech.tv's AR app.

More detailed instructions for viewing our "project" can be found after the jump:

Days 3-5: Equipment Experimentation

Thanks to the Tufts Innovates! grant we received, we've been able to purchase some really cool film-making equipment: a Cinetics CineMoco Slider System, a Cinetics CineSkate System, 3 GlideCam XR-2000's, and a Lowel DV Creator Lighting Kit. We've spent the past three weeks learning how these things work and exploring ways in which they can be used to create interesting shots for our video dance projects.

We especially enjoyed playing with the lighting kit this past Friday. (And then when two out of the three bulbs burned out, we made do with iPhone flashlights and the projector built into the classroom we had taken over.)




Check out some pictures as well as the mini-project that evolved over the course of the class after the break:

NYC Part 2

In addition to watching the work of the professionals at the 2015 Dance on Camera Film Festival in NYC, we also made some time to create some dance videos of our own while in the city. Sunday morning, index cards with "assignments" such as filming a duet with a street sign or finding pigeons and letting them be your dancers were randomly passed out to members of the class (as well as some Dance on Camera alumni who joined us on our trip); we then set off to explore the city and complete everyone's projects.

Though not required, some students even went so far as to edit the footage they gathered:




Check out some of the unedited footage captured by the class after the jump:

New York City!

Last weekend, we were fortunate enough to be able to travel to New York City for the 2015 Dance on Camera Film Festival at Lincoln Center! The festival itself was amazing; we were able to attend three screenings—The Shorts Program, Dancing is Living: Benjamin Millepied with Little Opera, and Capturing Grace with Renewal—as well as meet some of the filmmakers such as Danielle Kipnis ("Tagged") and Daphna Mero ("Washed"). It was a busy weekend, but we did find some time to explore the city and do some filming of our own. A second post with some of the footage the students captured after being inspired by work shown at the festival is forthcoming; until then, check out some of the pictures from our trip after the jump!