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Hi, all!
Recently, I worked on a project in which the director came from a Theatre background and so wasn’t very familiar with the visual language of movies. Because of this, large swathes of the visual style and deciding what the editor would need were on me to decide. The project went smoothly but, as we enter post-production, I worry that there may have been moments that we could have gotten more of that would’ve been helpful in the edit.
I’m wondering if y’all have any “rule-of-thumb” things that you keep in mind when developing a shot list that ensures you’re getting everything you need and then some. Ex. Grabbing a close-up of someone when shooting a medium so that the editor has the option to punch in if they decide.
There are times when I worry that what I’m putting on paper is too “utilitarian” and that the editor may want more. I wanted to see if there are any common threads, in everyone’s experience, of what is generally helpful/nice to have in the edit, if not necessary for the story so that the edit has more options and the visual flow of the movie has that extra “punch” to it.
P.S. Collaboration is the soul of making art and its fantastic that this forum exists to facilitate that!
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