General dance film research

Fred Astaire & Ginger rogers• In this piece of dance

in the film ‘Top Hat’ Framing is used within the scene.

West Side Story• In west side story they film from below to make dancer fill

up the whole screen. Making them more bold and drawing your attention to them.

Step-up 2: The StreetsHere the dancers in the background who are all in black circle the main dancer of this section of the dance who is in bright orange.

Similarly to west side story this is filmed from below to make the dancers take up as much of the screen as possible.

When the dancers are on the floor the camera is also on the floor so the camera is on eye level with dancers.

On smaller much more particular moves the camera zooms in and focus of the particular section of dance.