Film Analysis - Step Up Revaluation

Film Analysis - Step Up Revaluation

Here's the opening to Step Up Revaluation. People that like dance films will know about all of the Step Up film but here a little bit about the film. 

This film is set in Miami. Sean and his friend Eddie lead a flash mob who call themselves The Mob and they have flash mobs all over the city so that they could win an online contest. They also work at a luxury hotel. Sean meets a girl named Emily who is the daughter of the owner of the hotel, who aspires to be a dancer which her father doesn't support and they hit it off. Eventually Emily joins The Mob and finds out that her wealthy business father threatens to develop The Mob's historic neighborhood and displace thousands-of people, Emily must work together with Sean and The Mob to turn their performance art into protest art, and risk losing their dreams to fight for a greater cause.

Now to analyzing...

The film starts with and aerial view of the city where the film is set which is Miami, this is give the audience a sense of where the film is set. After the aerial view the director uses a long shot showing the audience what's going on the streets of Miami and giving the audience a sense of how busy the streets are. We then see a close up of a woman's legs this is getting the audience  thinking about 'who is this woman and what is she doing there'. We then see another close up of a man's face and a camera, getting the audience thinking what is he recording. After that we only see that the director has used long shots so we can see the dance.