THREE SINGLE-CAMERA COVERAGE STRATEGIES
If you’ve got only one camera shooting a one-time live event from only one angle at a time, you’ve probably got a real editing challenge ahead of you. You have three basic choices—and all three are difficult, but they can be done with some extra planning and forethought:
1. Shoot for the cut
This is probably the most common way to approach single-camera coverage and best suited to experienced shooters as you have to always be thinking about how everything you shoot will fit into a smooth, cohesive, edited piece with no holes. The problem is that as you move the camera, you will be creating holes in the edit. For a few seconds here and a few seconds there, footage will be unusable because the camera was ...
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