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The one thing that applies to both, like, features, short films, documentaries is coverage.
Make sure you get enough coverage. In doing a feature, it's making sure you get the basic
wide-shot, close-up, cutaways for your scene, so that when you put it together, that it'll
flow together well. You want to always have an option of having too much to pick from,
because the worst thing is, when you need that shot and you don't have it and there's
no way you could get it. That'll mess you up. So, it's always better to shoot way more
than not enough. And, especially with the documentaries, a lot of the documentaries
you're interviewing people and stuff, and it's like a lot of talk you had, like I'm
talking now, and you just don't want to stare at somebody for like five minutes at a stretch.
If they're talking about something, like how they go on vacation or how they, I don't know,
go golfing or something, while they're talking about it, or going to the doctor's office,
you want to video tape all these things. And the more the better, just so-it's more interesting
footage, and it always makes it a lot more powerful and a lot more interesting when they're
talking about it. You could actually go and see what they're talking about, because it's
a very visual thing you're doing. So, rather than necessarily just talking and telling
somebody something, you want to show them, because that's the whole point of the film
and the documentary. Anyway, you're showing people something.