My guess is that the camera would have to led itself to the themes on
the dance.
Not just a random element.
Unless...
Have you played Descent 3. It's an amazing 3D, 1st person game.
There is this feature in the game called a guidebot. This little
flying spotlight moves ahead of you, exploring and obeying your
commands. In the Heads Up Display, there is a monitor. The monitor
shows what the guidebot is seeing. It's quite a neat effect to have
the main view and a little extended perspective.
Much like the Huge TV screens at Baseball, Basketball and Football
stadiums...Rock concerts too.
Camera operators always on the sidelines and in the fly's.
Hope that helps.
PS...where can I get BigEye.
Greg
>Colleagues,
>
>Having just returned from the 2000 Feet Festival, I would like to report
>that the use of the BigEye sound canvas with Jin-Wen Yu's choreography was a
>success. I personally want to thank Richard Povall, Mark Coniglio, Tom
>DeMeyer, and the others who helped with my panicky attempts to get my
>computer/video/sound module setup working. There was interest in the
>system, and in the use of technology with dance in general. One slight damp
>note was when I was referred to as the pieces' "computer programmer" and it
>took me a while to figure out why. There's no shame in the title per se,
>but it's like referring to a dancer as a "leaper". Just because it's part
>of what you do, doesn't mean it's what you are. I referred to myself at the
>conference as a performance technologist. I'm curious to know what titles
>others have used in similar situations?
>
>Also, I'm curious to know if anyone using the BigEye or other sensing
>systems have experimented with the use of a camera operator to add to the
>flexibility of the system? For that matter, any work which involves live
>video would require some kind of aesthetic framing choices on the fly (as
>opposed to editing choices, which have more time). I find often that when
>I'm using a camera it feels a lot like an improvisational dance, especially
>when documenting a piece I've not seen before (I shudder to think of the
>people who will berate me now for a) referring to operating a camera as
>dance and b) referring to documentation of a dance as being artistic. Oh,
>well.)
>
>Does anyone else have experiences/opinions on the camera operator as an
>aesthetic influence to the dance?
>
>Jeff
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