Multi-Angle Coverage in Indie Filmmaking

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Hello, I’m Corey Turner here on behalf of Expert Village.com and today we are talking about low budget moving making. Okay, so what is coverage? Let’s say this is your actor and you set your camera up here to film and you shoot that shot and you get a good performance from them. Let’s say it is a 3 or 4 minute scene. You don’t want just one shot set up for recording. It is going to get very boring for the audience and it is also a sure sign of a low budget movie. So after you shoot that make sure you move your camera. You can get over here and get this angle. You can cut back and forth. If you had two people set up a camera here, shoot that so you have both of them and you can come back across and shoot the other way. Also, do a scene and zoom in a little bit and do the exact same scene again. It will look like you have two cameras set up in the same shot when it’s just you zoomed in and zoomed out. Personally I don’t zoom in during the shot unless you have a nice dolly something that can move and the budgets we are doing we usually don’t. So try to do a steady camera as possible and try to avoid the zooms. This will give you coverage. Make sure your actors know you picked up that glass and that you tried to knock that same situation again when you changed to your next angle. If that actor is giving you problems and can’t quite do that, get cut aways. Film the clock, if there is a table here and you have some fruit or vegetables film on that and film on picking up a glass. Get you a lot of cut aways because that is going to help you.

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