WHEN THEY CALL ACTION 🎬
How to Create Money Shot Moments on Camera
A FREE Stage-to-Screen Guide for Movement Artists
By Tamina Paris
Celebrity Camera Presence Director
Credits include:
The Next Step • Lady Gaga World Tours •
So You Think You Can Dance Canada •
Degrassi • Murdoch Mysteries • What We Do in the Shadows
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MAKE YOUR DANCE PERFORMANCE COME ALIVE ON CAMERA
If you perform for camera
— you’ve probably experienced this:
You give a performance that feels powerful in the room…
But when you watch it back on camera, something feels different.
Flatter.
Smaller.
Like the energy didn’t fully translate.
That’s because performing for a camera is a completely different skill than performing for a live audience.
In this short guide, I’m sharing the exact notes I give dancers while watching them perform on camera — the moments where a performance suddenly comes alive on screen.
These are the moments that make a performance translate on camera.
Inside you’ll discover:
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The mistake that makes great dancing look flat on film
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How to create “money shot” moments the camera remembers
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How performers earn emotional investment from the audience — and keep them with them from beginning to end
These are the same camera presence notes I give dancers in live filming sessions while watching performances on the monitor.
Once you start seeing these moments, you’ll never approach a camera performance the same way again.