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Getting coverage with two cameras

Getting coverage with two cameras

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Getting coverage with two cameras

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So I just showed you how it's still possible to get good coverage with a single camera and a little foresight. It's not a complicated process, but it does take more effort, time, and attention to get it right. Of course the easiest and best way to get good interview coverage is to shoot with two or more cameras. Shooting any scene with multiple cameras has two big advantages. First, you instantly have twice as many shots to choose from, so you can create a more visually dynamic and interesting scene. Second, your scene will also cut together more smoothly, since the shots will always match up, just as we've been cutting easily back and forth between multiple cameras for this course. And lastly, two cameras mean you always have a better alternative to cut to when you have camera mistakes such as a botched zoom or a bumped camera. Now, if you have two cameras onset, you can do all of these things much faster because you can capture some of these shots simultaneously. So, let's take a…

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