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editing not enough coverage

What do you do when you're putting a scene together and you don't have enough coverage?? :weird: Dialog scene is about 1 minute long, you have only a master shot and two 5 second closeups on a face..
 
Record other elements of the set, crop sections (the quality won't be that good but it gives variety).

If you're in a spaceship or factory have announcements in the background, to keep it interesting.
 
Upload it to withoutabox and send me it to me! :yes:

Without seeing the footage, though, I'm wondering if a REALLY slowly creeping zoom-in might add just the amount of activity that you need. If you keep it ridiculously subtle, a zoom in post will go unnoticed by normal people, and even filmmakers might even think it was supposed to be that way.

Just a thought. Maybe it'll work?
 
If you're having trouble scheduling actors for a pick up day, perhaps there are ECUs that you can fake? For example, let's say it's a dinner scene. Perhaps you could get ECUs of fingers circling glasses, hands on moving cutlery, a knife cutting into a steak etc.

It may not be great, but at least it's something to cut with..
 
Use the (sometimes cheesy, sometimes genius) tricks:

- exteriour of the building
- let conversation go on while one of the characters walk on the streets/is staring at the water
- intercut with different scene(s) (like the speech at the end of The Dark Knight)

- or just show it as it is... western style... use sound/music to keep attention.
 
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