Pure Barre: Ballet, Dance & Pilates Fusion
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Actor: Carrie RezabekDirector: BayView
Brand: Widowmaker Filmsllc
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 45 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Bayview Entertainment/Widowmaker
DVD Reviews of Pure Barre: Ballet, Dance & Pilates Fusion
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Summary: 2 Stars
The splash screen just plain sucks. The music is loud and the aspect ratio off. All sadly indicative of the quality of the video.
The video jumps right into the workout with little fanfare, no ads, no introduction and Carrie Rezabek; the instructor, offers basically no information about the workout and only a few vague words about what equipment you will need. These are both good and bad things. But I was a little disappointed right from the start because of the amateur look and feel of the video. The lighting is insufficient and the sound poorly mixed. As far as `set dressing' goes - oh there are some pretty blue and pink can lights at the wall behind her, cables and all. They fail to relieve how cold and dark looking the studio is.
In the workout itself, Rezabek does a lot of cuing for "up and hold" but NEVER holds the move. It got pretty annoying by ¾ the way through. She does talk non-stop through the workout, but she is no where near as obnoxious as Ellen Barrett. To be fair, some of her cues and why you are doing the moves are very good.
Rezabek's choice of an outfit makes it difficult to see what she is doing. She wears very long, flared black pants (complete with white stains on them) and a mismatched black top. And as I said previously, the lighting is low, so these things succeeded in obscuring exactly how she was moving. Tuck? What tuck? All I see is your black pants behind the bar, in shadows cast from 3 different places. (So there are lights, just in the wrong place.)
The camera zooms on the wrong things at the right time, and the right things are OUT OF FOCUS when they bother. The editing is choppy and the 'zoom' portions happen too fast to be of use anyway. How on earth the movie production company (who shall remain nameless) let this go out like this with their name on it is beyond me. The instructor will be on a part when the count is fast, but the video will cut to a blurry zoom of her moving slowly. Or the instruction will be "keep your foot flexed" and the blurry zoom is on her foot pointed. This sort of thing happens a lot in this video. And to give a great example of the level of expert cinematography: at one point it looks like the camera nearly gets dropped, home movie style. I kid you not.
The sound is bad, bad, bad and I am not talking about the crappy canned music. What I mean is that sometimes Rezabek's voice fades out and other times it booms out way too loud. For about the second half on, the music is too loud over all, making it difficult to hear her. This gets worse as the workout progresses.
Rezabek does not look like a dancer to me. There is quite a bit of extra sand in the bottom of the hour glass and on other parts, too. On the one hand, she looks okay; on the other hand, I aspire to be in above average shape, so I found this less than inspirational.
Finally, for as disappointed as I am with the production values of this video, the deal killer is that the workout itself is not significantly different than The Lotte Berk Method (well duh - it is another hybrid) or The Bar Method Body (however both of those DVDs have far, far superiour production, lighting, sound, music and sets). Pure Barre presents some work with hand weights (very little for upper body), work at the bar (extremely similar to The Bar Method Designer Sculpting) and some mat work (pretty much generic leg lifts and ab work) and basically no stretching. So ultimately, absolutely nothing about this workout stands out or makes it better. I've pointed out several examples of what makes it inferior but will add this: Rezabek's planks were not what I am used to - a straight fluid line from the top of the head to the feet. Hers were bent and awkward.
Is this a tough workout? Yes. But again, The Lotte Berk Method or The Bar Method DVDs are butt kicking workouts that are far more effective because you can see what the instructors are doing and hear what they are saying.
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