The title track was performed by future X Factor Australia winner Samantha Jade and produced by Wyclef Jean. Following is a list of set-ups starting with the ideal and of course, the most expensive, and finishing off with the least expensive and the least satisfactory. Step Up (Original Soundtrack) is the film soundtrack for the film Step Up.It was released on August 8, 2006 on Jive Records and features new music from Mario, Drew Sidora, Ciara, Chamillionaire, Kelis, Chris Brown, Jamie Scott and Yung Joc.The lead singles from the soundtrack are Sean Paul's "(When You Gonna) Give It Up to Me" featuring Keyshia Cole and Ciara's "Get Up… Onward to DTV! Conclusion: when there is no complex setting with strong verticals, allow the dancer(s) to move within the frame without needlessly moving the camera. "Step Up: All In" (2014) The fifth “Step Up” movie, like the fifth “Fast and Furious” movie, is the … This sounds like a lot of trouble and I suppose it is. If they have a fun space at home dedicated to dance, I … If the film is faster, the resultant picture is grainier. What better place for them to start developing their craft and artistry than with the most difficult art for which to write music, to costume, to light and now to videotape? Black on black is the road to invisibility. Videotape, like film, flattens the dynamic of dance, the frame cripples the spatial adventures of dance and the sweating, exultant, imminence of the living dancer is lost. Step Up is a 2006 American romantic dance drama film directed by Anne Fletcher (in her feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Duane Adler and Melissa Rosenberg and a story by Adler. It’s awkward for the camera operator to move or dolly. The fourth focus is about creating a work of art where length and any other factor has determinants which may lead the market but not follow after it. Tyler asks Director Gordon if she will let him attend the school, and she advises that he must prove to her that he deserves a chance. With Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan, Damaine Radcliff, De'Shawn Washington. Every Fred Astaire set was complicated, emphasizing strong verticals while he was usually kept in the middle of the frame. With 50 Cent, Bruce Willis, Ryan Phillippe, Rory Markham. Even in the best TV studios, when taping dance, there is no microphone in the studio. If the nature of the choreography makes early close-ups not practical, think of using portrait shots as an introduction or during the titles or as an opening shot which zooms out when the dance begins. Of course, most low-budget shoots don’t have this problem. The sound technician in the control booth had a mixer to balance the music and my “foot and dress” noises. And yet, for all of its obvious limitations, the technology has been embraced by the dance community and with good reason. Let them know that anything they contribute from equipment to technicians to post-production facilities would be tax deductible. What must be seen and when? The limitation of the video window is that if we see the entire space, the dancer is ineffectually small and if we come in close enough to see the dancer fully and strongly, we lose awareness of the surrounding space and so the impact of spatial action is not experienced us. Realizing that they only have one chance, they finally work together. When is the thrust of the choreography being carried by the group and when is it in the interplay of two of the dancers or even the swift turn of a head? It has grossed a collective total of $650 million. If the taped version is to convey the poem of the dance, a sequence containing only a hand may be the most poignant moment of all. Step Up film location: Tyler and Nora rehearse: City Pier Building, Thames Street, Fells Point, Baltimore Caught vandalising the auditorium, Tyler is sentenced to 200 hours community service in the very school, which specialises in music and dance. A single, non-stop, one-camera shot of an entire dance can never be much more than a tape for the record unless you have a genius camera operator who becomes part of the performance process; moving in, out and around the dancers with a hand held camera to make a visual poem of the work. It was released August 8. When Nora's dance partner, Andrew, sprains an ankle, Nora finds herself unexpectedly without a partner for her routine. The soundtrack features music from Mario, Drew Sidora, Ciara, Chamillionaire, Kelis, Chris Brown, Within Temptation's Sharon Den Adel, Blaire Reinhard and Yung Joc. If it weren't for the amazing dancing, I'd give it a 1. Parents need to know that Set It Up is a New York City-set romcom in which bouncy, smart twentysomethings struggle to find their way in the high-pressure worlds of business and journalism. The speeding car is usually locked in the center of the picture frame but the scenery is rushing by, backwards. The lead singles from the soundtrack are Sean Paul & Keyshia Cole's "(When You Gonna) Give It Up To Me", Chris Brown's "Say Goodbye", and Ciara single, "Get Up" featuring Chamillionaire. A high quality audio recording is sent directly into the VCR in sync with the picture being taped and another audio line goes to speakers blasting away in the studio for the dancers to hear, but to repeat, there is no microphone in the studio. For us, light is the palpable geography through which we travel. If you must work on such a dangerous surface, go over the choreography carefully to see whether you can modify falls and aerial work so that you and/or your dancers don’t live to remember that day with bitterness. Some money is saved by eliminating the post production process of editing. Daniel Nagrin Theatre, Film & Dance Foundation, Manopoly Premiere: a Dance Performance by Nic Herring-Harman, Nagrin Fellow ASU 2020 Nic Herring-Harman, An Overview Of The International Conference "Jews And Jewishness In The Dance World", This and That: Jewishness in the Dances of Daniel Nagrin, Daniel Nagrin's Dance Portraits: Choreographing Agency, A Tribute to Daniel Nagrin: Russian Jewish Influences in American Modern Dance, Severed Limbs and Other Findings in the Daniel Nagrin Collection, © 2021 Daniel Nagrin Theatre, Film & Dance Foundation. Sexy Dance 4 est un film réalisé par Scott Speer avec Kathryn McCormick, Ryan Guzman. If you loved "Step Up 2: The Streets" and "Step Up 3D", I'm sure you'll love this one too. Dec 29, 2017 - Whether you’re designing a new dance studio or upgrading a familiar space, it’s a lot of fun! Heretofore, the dance has been an illiterate art, with no history, except for a few centuries of paintings, obscure notations and memories. Frustrated, Skinny walks back home in a huff before spotting PJ arriving at a store with his friend. Backstage, a proud Director Gordon introduce Nora to a fellow director from a professional dance company, hoping to sign Nora. When does the eye make a close-up and when does it take in the entire stage? Is Dance TV next. You look out the window to look at the sky. Other tracks include Kelis' "80s Joint", Anthony Hamilton's "Dear Life", YoungBloodZ's "Imma Shine" and Petey Pablo's "Show Me The Money". Little can be expected of videographers who see the dance for the first time the day of the shooting. Weekend rentals are cheaper. In professional studios that have the old pedestal cameras the lowest position is over 4 feet which is ghastly for dance. Most videographers feel safest with lots of light evenly distributed. Overall Step Up Revolution may be one of the better movies of this series. Music and dance compliment each other, one being essentially audible and the other visible. She repeats her advice to him from their first rehearsal together that he'll need to get some tights, and the movie ends with the two sharing a kiss, hoping to dance together again even more. When we videotape dance, we are incorporating the limitations and the strengths of that medium into our choreography. Witness the failures of most videotapes of public performances. Broadway shows always have a costume parade before the dress rehearsal. A group of friends become involved in a potentially deadly diamond heist. At other times, the most significant motion might be seen in a hand opening or in the slow turn of a head. In this case all of the cameras are connected with one recorder and what is recorded is controlled by a director who has a switcher, a device that records only one camera at a time; thus the editing is done in “real time;” that is, while the shooting goes on. Use knee pads and padding where ever possible and if the costuming does not permit it, at least use them for rehearsals. Without a boom, there are ladders, scaffolding and balconies. I think the use of the switcher is not to be desired because precise and aesthetically valid editing of dance is almost impossible to do well on the wing. Step Up is a 2006 American romantic dance drama film directed by Anne Fletcher (in her feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Duane Adler and Melissa Rosenberg and a story by Adler. The best video equipment is found in broadcast studios which almost always have concrete floors. For 25 years, DreamWorks Animation has considered itself and its characters part of your family. Try to get Public Access Television people interested. Though there are many skilled video artists and technicians, very few know dance nor the obstacles standing in the way of realizing its beauty and power on the video screen. The proposal: let every college or university with a dance program select out of each year’s work at least one piece of choreography to receive the full treatment: cameras capable of producing broadcast quality video, a skilled and sensitive videographer and lighting designer, a crew and a high ceiling space suitable for taping, a skilled and sensitive editor and post production facilities. For work on the stage, I subscribe to this thinking but in the transposition to the screen should this dictum be reconsidered? Step Up (2006) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The high camera best catches the excitement of movements covering space and is especially important at those moments when the floor pattern is the most significant statement being made choreographically. Why? The third camera should be positioned at the other side of the house, far enough back to include the entire space and at least three feet above the height of the tallest dancer. Even then to do a master shot of the entire space, it may be necessary to position this camera from a corner of the space. We see our tennis god tug at the shoulders of his shirt, study the strings of his racquet, bounce the ball, the camera pulls back as he serves and another camera cuts in for a long shot to cover the entire court and catch the return. Believing “foot and dress” noises are necessary, at a video workshop in Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, I hit upon a solution: the taped recording of the music had a line going into one sound track of the tape recorder and another one to a single speaker in the studio. Needless to say, everything gets more difficult as the number of dancers being videotaped increases. Amazon.com: Step Up (5 Film Collection) - 5-Disc Box Set ( Step Up / Step Up 2 - The Streets / Step Up 3 / Step Up 4 - Miami Heat / Step Up 5 - All In ) ( Let's Dance / Sexy [ Blu-Ray, Reg.A/B/C Import - France ]: Marc Macaulay, Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan Tatum, Damaine Radcliff, De'Shawn Washington, Mario, Drew Sidora, Rachel Griffiths, Josh Henderson, Tim Lacatena, … In the sophisticated standards of dance today, “mickey mousing” or making dance phrases that duplicate the rhythmic contours of the music is considered naive and undynamic. If they could hear the music so could that microphone. This can only work if the dancers work in every shot to the same recorded score. There is no question that dance seen on a television monitor is a giant step down from the real thing. Tyler offers to help, but Nora refuses. Step Up: All In is a 2014 American dance film directed by Trish Sie (in her feature directorial debut) and written by John Swetnam. Step Up was released by Touchstone Pictures and Summit Entertainment in the United States on August 11, 2006. Long shot? The speaker volume was set barely loud enough for me to hear. It's incomparable to the first "Step Up", which is less of a 'dance movie' and more of a movie that includes dance within it. These close-ups are the most powerful images of which video capable. We dare not simply point the camera at our work. Set Up is the first film in a $200 million deal with the production companies Cheetah Vision and George Furla's Hedge Fund Film Partners. A wide open lens has less clarity and sharpness than one that is closed down. Without noises, the dances lack reality and credibility. Step Up Year of the dance est un film réalisé par Ron Yuan avec Meiqi Meng, Yixuan Zhou. Make contact with local producers of commercial TV. It would be recording music played over loud speakers in the studio, thus picking up room acoustics, echo, and delay from speaker to mike to recorder; all making the final music track muddied. The choreographer should be able to convey this “score” to the videographer and be able to receive creative input from him.her. Unexpectedly, pirouettes shot from high above convey the thrill of spinning better than any other angle. With 50 Cent, Bruce Willis, Ryan Phillippe, Rory Markham. Tape is economically feasible but few of us have been able to bear looking at ourselves in that medium. [5][6][7] In 2018 they announced they were separating. However, after Tyler demonstrates that he can handle the routine, Nora reconsiders and convinces Director Gordon to allow Tyler to rehearse with her. This set-up calls for a post-production process that requires viewing time to select the best shots. The camera eye is round but the picture it produces is a rectangle; a shape which has no relation to what the human eye sees. There is the university itself, there are unexplored pockets of departmental budgets, there are video producers in the area who would consider a tax-deductible venture, there are business sponsors who may be waiting to be asked and there is the need to do this. Disgusted by his betrayal, Nora breaks up with Brett. Synopsis : Miami Beach – Amis d’enfance, Sean et Eddy travaillent comme serveurs dans l’hôtel de … This will guarantee that all the dancers will have a low slung look, with stumps for legs. Close-up? Alternately, cutting strategically between closeups and wide ranging shots can maintain the dynamic of a vibrant personal presence moving in wide space. Directed by Anne Fletcher. Nora's bond with Tyler grows, and one day she takes him to a special spot on the waterfront near a company for which her late father used to work, revealing that this is where she first envisioned her routine. Head down memory lane with this classic film dance mashup video that expertly pairs with Mark Bronson and Bruno Mars' hit "Uptown Funk". Step Up All In (2014) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Mac and Tyler try to get Skinny to abandon the car when PJ and his friends arrive and fatally shoot Skinny. In filming dances, Hollywood takes great care to include sounds created by dancers with their feet, costumes and/ or props. Camera and dance are competitive. Any costume that has the same color as the background will in effect make the dancer disappear. Crushed, she considers abandoning her dance career and going to college after all, but Nora receives an emotional confession and strong encouragement from her mother, who once opposed her future in dance. When Mac and Skinny pay Tyler a visit on the school's lot, Nora watches curiously from a window as Tyler dances with his friends, mockingly incorporating a mashup of break-dance and the ballet moves he has recently observed. A low camera position lengthens the legs, amplifies all leg movements, gives a heroic cast to the dancers’ bodies and makes elevation look higher. How to choose? If the light configuration is uneventful, moving from here to there (which is what we do for a living) becomes uneventful. Little light or radical contrasts produce terrible results. Shooting only some gives only some of the choreography. For videotaping, the best idea would be a “monitor parade” of the costumes in the setting where the shoot will occur leaving enough time to make any changes needed to retain the definition of the dancers’ bodies. Truth be told, it started out as a rebellious joke. Set-Up #2: “Professional” In the rare and exciting chance that there is the opportunity for a dance to be videotaped in a professional studio, there is a treacherous probability that must, if possible, be avoided. The master shot or long shot which is responsible for not losing anything can still on occasion come in close for a medium shot or a close-up if nothing significant is happening elsewhere. Whenever they can, they bring the camera in tight. With over … This fourth function contains a seed that might alter the future shape of dance. The technical term for this is “foot and dress” noises. They all regard dance … We can identify, come close to, root for or dislike the player. When a security guard appears, Tyler helps the two escape, accepting full blame for the vandalism himself. Step Up is a 2006 American romantic dance drama film directed by Anne Fletcher (in her feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Duane Adler and Melissa Rosenberg and a story by Adler. Meanwhile, Tyler continues to attempt a balance between his new goals, his new friends, and nurturing a troubled relationship with his old ones. Shooting at eye level, the camera is closer to the head than the feet and by the nature of perspective and the exaggerations of the lens, the head gets bigger and the legs shorter. What’s the good of a history if it degrades the quality of the art? A shoe dye to lighten the tone will help. Even if a director were present at many rehearsals the razor edge timing demanded of good dance editing will prove too illusive for a definitive final result. Organize a day or a weekend when several of you can rent the same space, crew and equipment at a significant saving. The normal height for a the dance camera should be on a level equidistant from the head and the feet. The newest ones are better and can skim the ground or swing up to 12 – 13 feet in the air. Step Up is an American romantic dance film multi-media franchise created by Duane Adler.The franchise includes five films and a television series. Who else would hire those young, raw, fresh out of school, untested people except the dancers, whose budgets usually preclude working with established artists and technicians? Three and four overlap, but not actually. It is done all the time when a symphony orchestra is being taped, but there the director has a musical score as a guide and he.she can pinpoint exactly the moment when the oboe solo begins. The second camera stationed to, say the left of the house or dance space and low; as close to floor level as possible, a little closer to the stage or dance space, with the responsibility of doing mid-shots, shooting one, two or three dancers including arms and legs and wherever strategic, close-ups. All terribly expensive to rent and demanding skilled operators to go with them. Study the taping of sports. Official Site of DreamWorks Animation. The reason? Tyler surprises Nora by showing up, last minute, at the evening of the showcase. She initially declines, but suddenly changes her mind as Tyler wishes her good luck and walks away. The image below illustrates the base set-up for my Live View Screen which is also mirrored in my Viewfinder. Choreographically, there are times when what is happening across the entire space is what the dance is about. There are eight factors that will inevitably influence how well a particular videotape creates the kind of excitement a choreographer is trying to provoke: I believe this is the crux of the problem. A marketing tool, directed towards committees giving grants and potential sponsors. A sequel, Step Up 2: The Streets, was released on February 14, 2008. For safety, at all times one or the other camera must have the responsibility to cover the master shot. It serves as a sequel to 2012's Step Up Revolution and the fifth and final installment in the Step Up film series.The film stars Ryan Guzman, Briana Evigan, Stephen "tWitch" Boss, Misha Gabriel, Izabella Miko, Alyson Stoner, and Adam Sevani. Nora is elated and embraces Tyler. Go for contrast when you want it but be certain that the dark areas are filled in with enough light for visibility, unless there is a justification for black areas. Medium shot? Donnie Darko is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly and produced by Flower Films.It stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Mary McDonnell, Katharine Ross, Patrick Swayze, Noah Wyle, Stu Stone, Daveigh Chase, and James Duval.Set in October 1988, the film follows Donnie Darko, a … After the performance, Director Gordon is beaming and the crowd is blown away. Get to know the community of videographers and particularly the new, talented and creative ones. Skinny steals PJ's unattended car after PJ's friend left the car unguarded trying to remind PJ and stubbornly drives back to Omar's place wanting to hang out with the girls. Whatever, we are involved. After all, she.he comes to the piece with fresh eyes and should be welcomed into the creative process. Black curtains, black wings and black vinyl floors swallow black costuming and particularly black shoes. So many great options for dance space in your home. This quiet music played behind the shotgun mike was heard by me but not by the shotgun mike. [9] On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 48/100 based on reviews from 23 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews"; its highest score was 75 (from both Entertainment Weekly and The Boston Globe), and its lowest was a 25 from the San Francisco Chronicle. Most camera operators, partly operating out of fear that the choreographer is certain to scream that he.she is not following the dancer, will always keep the dancer or dancers in the middle of the frame, thus in a very real sense, the dancers are not moving at all. Both are visible arts with profoundly different structures. Upon hearing this from Tyler, Nora suggests that the showcase could also be used as his entrance audition. They are frozen in the center of the video window like a deer caught on the cross hairs of a hunter’s scope. Before ever calling in a videographer, the choreographer should pause to look again at her.his creation with fresh eyes and make a looking score. When the curtain opens, Tyler, Nora, and the ensemble of students perform their original choreography against Miles' latest musical score. The camera positions described here can and should be varied to suit the needs of particular works. Do everything possible to have a plentiful supply of light available; enough, so that it is never necessary to shoot with the lens wide open. Only if there is a complex set behind the moving figures can the impact of motion in space be experienced by the viewer. Set in Baltimore, Maryland, the film follows the tale of the disadvantaged Tyler Gage (Tatum) and the privileged modern dancer Nora Clark (Dewan), who find themselves paired up in a showcase that determines both of their futures. The video camera is dumb when it comes to light. During one of their practice sessions, Andrew falls over and, realizing he can not cope with the dance, resigns himself from the routine, and Nora is, once again, left without a partner. You do it constantly. [8], Step Up earned a total of $21 million in its opening weekend, ranking second in the North American box office. To create this “poem of the dance,” never shoot during a public performance. It earned $65.3 million in the United States and Canada by its last day in theaters on October 19, 2006. The Distance Scale can be set in feet or meters based on your preference, and to set this go to the Set Up Menu > Screen Set Up > Focus Scale Units > Feet. Our name, DANCES WITH FILMS, was actually a play on the plethora of ‘dance’ film festivals that cropped up left and right at the time – Slamdance, Digidance, Nodance, TromaDance. There, the dancers are filmed to pre-recorded music blasting away in a studio with no microphone. Meanwhile, Mac congratulates Tyler for his best performance. During their initial practice session, Tyler is antagonistic towards Nora as well as her boyfriend, Brett, both of whom respond with haughty attitudes. A system or score should be worked out as to who, at each point is responsible for the wide or what the trade calls THE MASTER SHOT and who is responsible for the medium or close-up. One camera in the center; the camera eye preferably at the dancers’ waist level, with the responsibility to do the master shot which includes all of the dancers and much of the stage space. I believe that throughout the world of academe there are a few remarkable and beautiful works of the dance art being produced every year for a pitifully small audience.