From the course: Video Foundations: Cameras and Shooting

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Shooting for the edit

Shooting for the edit

From the course: Video Foundations: Cameras and Shooting

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Shooting for the edit

Now to finish, I just want to touch on some topics and practices that will make it easy for you to tell your story through editing. Editing is all about choices, what you show, what you don't show, how long you leave it on the screen, what shots you put before and after it, and more. Editing is part of post production, but the job of editing actually begins when you're shooting your project, because that's when you make the choice of what to shoot and how long to hold the shot. Well, if you decide you need a close-up to make a particular scene work, but you didn't actually shoot a close-up, that's a production decision that actually affected your editing process. So whenever you're shooting a scene, you can't just think of the camera, you have to also think and shoot with how the scene will actually be edited in mind. There is a term for this in filmmaking, it's called Shooting for the Cut. Shooting for the Cut means getting a variety of good shots with different compositions and…

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