Breakdancing Routine (ideas of how to film one)

These two videos show a break dancing routine, where the dancer is seen dancing to the beat, which is where the footage also cuts in places. These two videos provide me with an idea of how to film a break dance routine, inspiring me with shots that look successful for example in the first video at 0:18 we see a extreme long shot of the dancer for one second, the camera then cuts to the profile of the dancer showing us a mid shot, and then it cuts to a long shot which is slowly zooming in, which then cuts to a close up of the dancer who is looking and is lightly turned away from the camera. There is then a brief long shot, until the camera cuts to a close up shot of the feet then finally back to the long shot. This play between long shot to mid/close up shot and back again is successful as it is on beat with the music creating clean and smooth editing.





This second video, shows the same scene but with two dancers. In this video the camera is constantly moving slowly, if not following the dancer's moves (0:31).