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Collecting B-roll and specialized shots

Collecting B-roll and specialized shots

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Collecting B-roll and specialized shots

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So we just covered techniques to make sure you get enough different camera angles of you interview, but most projects will be best served by additional imagery that illustrates, complements, and otherwise helps to visually tell your story. A person sitting in the chair is still just a person sitting in the chair, no matter how many angles you cover it from. The same static subject can only be onscreen so long before your audience starts to visually, if not completely, disengage with your story. Instead, we want to keep all of visuals freshen and poppin,' baby, and that means getting plenty of B-roll, cutaways, and a few sweet camera moves to help us tell our story. So to smoothly edit your subject's comments to condense time without using jump cuts, you will need to insert completely different shots during the editing process that will allow you to cut away from one part of the interview and move to another. Hence we get the term cutaway. Cutaways are generally going to be individual…

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