. "Cutting In" The Camera vs. "Open Approach" Shooting with editing in mind How to capture your video footage “Cutting in the Camera” is a filming approach known as the “holy grail of filmmaking”. With this form of filmmaking, the director and their team can sit down with the director of photography and storyboard the entire movie, scene by scene. They will be able to set the rhythm and establish every angle before setting up the cameras and lights. When they are ready to start shooting all they need to do is follow the storyboard scene by scene. Once this process is over, the editor simply fits the pieces together. This is an oversimplification of what actually happens of course. While storyboards are often used, and used well, they are often replaced in the spur of the moment with somebody’s “idea” of an alternative shot. This happens because the director may want to try out more than one shot option in the editing room, or they may re-visualize an entire scene based on the moment to moment changes of the weather or any other type of creative inspiration they may see on set. Usually there is a slight mixing of both types of film shooting and a fairly reasonable budget for scene changes. However, some see this as a director being indecisive since part of the role of a director is to know what will look best on the screen. By re-shooting 4 or 5 takes of the same scene under different camera angles or different lighting naturally costs money and time.   Continue Below... Re-Establishing Shot Bridging Shots Without a Pivot Shot Manipulating Cinematic Geography Exploring Temporal Connections Lev Kuleshov Experiment Constructing Scenes Using Q and A without Dialogue How Much to Feed Your Audience More About Q and A and Cause and Effect Cutting in the Camera Vs. Open Approach       .

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