Genre Study Earlier in the Year

Earlier in the year, we did a project on a specific genre. The genre assigned to my group was dance, so we researched the common uses of sound, shots, angles, editing and more. We found out that dance films have music that is directly relevant to the actions on screen. We also discovered that diegetic sounds are often made less loud in the editing process to not take away from the music. One such film is West Side Story. In order to get the best shot of the dancers, specific cameras with certain distances from the dancers are used. One is lower to the ground, while one is higher as well as one being closer and one further to them as well. Things like camera angles, types of shots, music, and more are the things we plan to research for our chosen genre for our final project.