COVERING A MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
Making Single-Camera Coverage Work
The hardest part of covering a live one-time-only event is getting enough interesting shots to cover all the action. To do this the easiest way, I highly recommend doing multiple-camera recordings for any live show or event, whenever possible. However, if you’re a broke guerrilla filmmaker (or my main constituent, as I prefer to call you), you are probably very limited in your resources and fortunate to have one working camera, least of all several of them.
Perhaps this section of the book should more aptly be called “Attempting to Make Single-Camera Coverage Work” because it’s not something that’s easily done. In this case, the two biggest challenges you’ll face in covering live ...
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