Music and Dance
Some directors choose shots ‘spontaneously’; others carefully analyze the performance beforehand. But in the end, the way you stage and shoot music and dance is mainly influenced by the purpose of your program.
Approaches
• If your aim is effect, then you will probably use light to engender mood – dynamic camera movements and ever-changing compositional patterns to enhance musical structure; slow mixes, fast cutting, superimpositions to echo the tempo.
• Where the presentation is more formal, emphasis is on clarity, with the camera concentrating on performance and techniques, rather than dynamics.
Sometimes a particular presentation technique may be used for quite different purposes. Slow motion, for example, can be used ...
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