From the course: Video for Photographers: 2 Filmmaking on Location

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Getting coverage

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- As a photographer, you all know what a fashion project is, and you all know what a documentary project is. If you're shooting a fashion project, there are a lot of elements that you can plan ahead, and you should plan ahead. You need to know who the model will be, what kind of wardrobe, what kind of makeup, the lighting set-up, so those are things that you can absolutely plan before the shoot happens. For a documentary piece, you know the story, you know the location, you probably know what the characters, who is going to be there, what they will be talking about, but what really happens within that story is totally, sometimes, unexpected and spontaneous. Coverage is a mix between the two. You can prepare in your pre-production phase and your research and location scouting, you can prepare for the structure, for the scene. In this case, we had a racking scene for the winery. But what happens within that, it's unexpected. We just didn't know what to get. How can we prepare for that?…

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