If you are learning a dance/are planning to teach a dance, here are a few tips to help you/your students learn faster:

• Breakdown footwork and upper body separately. Balance is important and we do not want anybody getting hurt

• Frequently record yourself and review footage to catch mistakes that could be hard to notice while performing

• Memorizing the song itself helps cues and timing.

• Pay attention to your facial expressions! If you are lost, it shows on your face.

• Start a dance at 20-60% speed and make your way up to 100%. See section "Helpful Programs" for tips on video playback.

• Separating your group and doing individual critiques is a good way to fine tune every member if teaching others

If you have completed a dance and need to get it filmed, contact the YouTube manager to film. YouTube crew will provide their own filming equipment. You can always ask people outside the club to help film, but camera equipment will usually not be provided.

If you instead are planning on filming by yourself, here are some tips:

• On most phones, the rear facing camera is higher quality

• A tripod or monopod is your best friend. If you have neither, a standing lamp is a close second.

• If filming on a phone, you can use a guitar capo to prop it up. If your phone case had a pop socket, take the case off and place it on the phone backwards to get it to stand upwards on a table.

• Take a short video of you walking out to your cue, and re-watch it to ensure your whole body is in frame

After filming you can either edit the dance yourself, or send the footage to YouTube manager to have it edited by the team. See section "Helpful Programs" below for more info

Many of our members learn dances by downloading the video and using VLC, a video playback program that allows the user to mirror footage, change playback speed, and create playback loops within the player. A download link to VLC can be found below.

Tips for using VLC:

• The '[' and ']' keys will decrease and increase speed

• If you are using a Bluetooth device or if speed is less than 50%, audio may desync. Use the 'j' and 'k' keys to move audio playback by increments of 50 ms

• To create loops, under "View" click "Advanced Controls." Of the buttons that appear on the bottom of the screen, the third one A🡒B will create loops. Click it once to set the beginning of the loop, and click a second time to set the end. This section of video will now repeat.

• To flip a non-mirrored video, go to "Tools" and click "Effects and Filters." Click the first tab "Video Effects" and then the tab "Geometry" under that. Check the box that reads "Transform," and from the drop down menu select "Flip Horizontally" to now view as a mirrored video. Make sure to click "Save" if you want to keep these settings for the next time you use VLC

If you find a mirrored video on YouTube, you can also alter speed by intervals of 10, by clicking the gear icon on a video, selecting "Playback Speed," and clicking "Custom" to use a slider for finer control over speed. Some Chrome extensions can also help you change speed and create loops

For editing dance videos, some of us use Adobe products, such as Premiere or After Effects. A good free program is Davinci Resolve, which is very powerful and light, and can run on Mac OS, Windows, and Linux systems.