Shoot direction

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Coverage, and the frames you will need later

Lesson 7 of 11 in Shoot direction.

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Everything is cheap while the set is up and expensive once it is down. Coverage is the discipline of spending ten extra minutes now against the near-certainty that somebody will want something else in three weeks.

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Four frames from wide to extreme close-up around the same figure.
An ink drawing of a photographer at a locked tripod shooting an empty living-room set just after the model steps out of frame.
Shooting a clean plate of the empty set from the same tripod position.
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  1. Question 1, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Shooting more than the frame you came for, so the edit has options.”

    • Technical note
    • Brief on the day
    • Energy
    • Coverage
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “A wider or looser version, in case something needs to move later.”

    • Unfixable
    • In post
    • In camera
    • Safety
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “A close detail. Cheap on the day, expensive to recreate.”

    • Insert
    • Must-have
    • Turnaround
    • Setup

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