Ncik's Hw: The importance of coverage and cut-aways

Coverage:

A coverage is the size of an image that a lense is able to produce when shooting a scene.

This is important because, if you're shooting something to be played on a big screen like a cinema then you will need a big "coverage" otherwise the scene will be coming pixelated and look really erm crappy :)

Cut-away:

A cut-away is where in scene a sequence of normally continuous action is inserted into the footage. This normally happens when a character makes a statement of some sort and then the "cut-away" begins. After which we then return to the scene when the character had said this.


The importance of this is that it in a way tells another part of the story. Ok so it's action and there isn't much of a storyline to it, but there generally is a lot of emotion going on at this present time. And it also keeps us interested in what we are watching