Edit Suite: Editing Video Events
Stuck shooting an event from just one vantage point? Not to worry, as an editor, you have an array of tricks to help create entertaining video anyway.Ballets, ball games, concerts, rodeos, auctions, circuses, lectures, weddings. We all attend spectator events and often we want to shoot them. That's great, except that our ticket is for row 118, seat 33. And that's usually where we're stuck from beginning to end of the whole exciting event.
Why is this a problem? Can you think of any self-respecting movie that was shot entirely from one single setup? When you're confined to a spectator seat, that's (almost) your only option. Too often, the resulting video consists mainly of boring long shots enlivened only by clanking jump cuts.
But don't leave your camcorder at home the next time you attend an event, because as an editor you have a whole bag of cheap tricks, workarounds and sneaky secrets to spruce up the footage you shot from one viewpoint. Of course, these ingenuities depend on having the right footage to work with, so let's see how you can shoot everything from row 118 and still deliver great footage to the edit …
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