When we edited the footage that we took in class of an activity/observational shooting, we understood the importance of cutaways.
We were supposed to film and edit to make a 5 minute footage of the progression of an activity.
We decided on filming a student's process of queuing up to heat up his lunch, waiting for it to finish microwaving, and then eating it.
However, when editing it, we found we didn't have much footage to make a 5 minute clip, and the footage we had was pretty much boring or didn't have continuity. We realised that many of these problems could be solved had we taken cutaways of other people waiting, eating, etc that could help with continuity as well as making the final result less mundane.
Point to note for our doco!
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