Justin Yook – Project Proposal

In the world of dance, concepts and formations are very important because they heavily influence how detailed choreography looks and feels as a whole. But, this part of the choreography process can be difficult because there are many factors involved. My final project is called Stage Master, a tool that choreographers can use to make various formations and staging ideas in an organized manner. Specifically, users will first drag and drop an audio file into the program. Then, the program will break down the audio into sets of eight counts after computing the BPM or tempo. Next, users can add as many dancers on the canvas by clicking the mouse, and move each dancer around by dragging them with the mouse. Every formation will be linked to a corresponding frame of counts within a set of eight counts. The convenient feature is that users can play the music while they arrange dancers. After finishing all the staging ideas, the program has the ability to export all screenshots of the formations in a compiled pdf file.