Sorry, can't... yet. Another film shoot is only third on our "to-do" list, but the first two items are really big ones. Item #1: Every free moment I have is going in to finishing up the variation DVD. When I'm done with that, there's one more to edit. Item #2: Melissa is nearly 8 months pregnant. (And that would make for a rather funny looking Quickstep anyway, don't you think?)
So once we've had the baby, Melissa has had time to physically recover, I've finished editing the variation DVD's, and we've had a month or two to practice and refine our skills, we're going to schedule another film shoot. It was already decided long ago that we would do this next. I was originally hoping to get it done before a baby came along, but it didn't work out that way.
The next film shoot will be dedictaed strictly to filming web clips... nothing for VHS or DVD, and no spoken instruction. Filming just the deomonstration to narration and music will allow us to fit 10 times as many steps into one weekend, and so we hope to film the entire bronze syllabus in rhythm, smooth, and yes, standard (read: Quickstep!).
I can't guarantee a date for filming right now, but I can say for sure that it won't happen anytime before April or May. When it does, the good news is, the post-production time for web clips is only a fraction of the time it takes to produce DVD's, so it won't be another 6 months to a year before they wind up actually on the website. If we film at the beginning of May, for example, I can probably have all of the clips up by the end of May. And if I do Quickstep first, it can be up within just a day or two of filming.
Regards,
Jonathan Atkinson
www.ballroomdancers.com
