"Making Your Horse Star on Film"
Tips and techniques for videotaping dressage

Speaker: Kyra Beth Houston (University ½ credit)

Incorporating some simple tips and techniques when videotaping your horse's dressage performance, can help make all the difference in presenting him as the star he is. In today's market, affordable digital video cameras and editing software make quality videotaping available to everyone. But the best equipment is only as good as the skills of the person filming. Professional techniques to improve videotaping include planning the shoot, camera position, getting in synch with the horse, zooming and panning, and much more. The filming and editing tips presented in this session will help you present your horse to his fullest!

Speaker Bio

As producer of Dressage Unlimited, Dressage.com's weekly program on nationwide satellite to more than 40 million households, Kyra Beth Houston is dressage on TV. "Ky," as Kyra is known, leads her crew to film the best of dressage world wide. She has filmed international competitions, World Equestrian Games, Jerez-the 1580 original Lipizzan stud, Jan Brink Symposiums, Eckart Meyner's Seat Symposium, and exhibitions featuring long-lining, stallion quadrilles, even a camel pas de deux!

Ky also pioneered transparent videos which have helped improve dressage judging worldwide. Taught by Mr. Snipper, her childhood Shetland pony; Diala, her beloved quarter horse mare; Tiz, her 4th level schoolmaster, and all the four legged professors at assorted riding schools, Ky today shares her passion for dressage on film.

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