From the course: Creative Video Editing Techniques
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Understanding coverage - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Creative Video Editing Techniques
Understanding coverage
- Continuity editing is all about creating seamless, cohesive scenes. Its goal is to support the story by linking shots together in an almost invisible manner. And one of the most important concepts to understand about successful continuity editing is something called coverage. Coverage is the practice of shooting a scene multiple times from multiple angles, which provides the editor with all the shots needed to portray a scene. First, during pre-production, the scene is broken down into different shot setups like wide shots, medium shots, closeups, extreme closeups, insert shots and cutaways. During production, the director shoots or covers the same action over and over again using these different shot setups. That's why it's called coverage. Sometimes, multiple cameras are used so that different setups can be captured simultaneously. Because the shots completely overlap one another, the editor has the building blocks…
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