Editing requirements (2)
Variety of shot
In order to compress an item to essential information, the editor requires a variety of options. This means a variety of relevant shots in order to restructure a continuous event (e.g. a football match, a conference speech) and to reduce its original time scale to the running order requirement. A continuous 20-minute MCU of a speaker without audience or relevant cutaways will inevitably lead to a jump cut if more than one portion of the speech is required. Take the opportunity during a pause, which may signal a new topic, or on applause, to change the size of shot. Only ‘keynote’ sentences will be used and a difference in shot size at these points will avoid irrelevant cutaways to shorten the item.
Pans, ...
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