One of the best tips ZodiacVFX can give for a set is to get as much coverage as you can. There is nothing worse for a editor to be stuck with a sequence which cant be pieced together. When I am on camera for ZodiacVFX we do the action the full time in all the shots, this enables us to have all our shots from our shotlist in full, not just the bits that we thought we would need. A downside to this is that it can take a bit more time to complete, but it will help so much when you get to post production.
As Zodiac we learnt this hardway and because of this some of our first productions lacked the outcome we had intended. Coverage is key.
Another way to get coverage, is to shoot multicamera, this enables the action in the shots to be exactly the same and therefore smoother to cut to. Downsides to this are; access to cameras, limited positions on set, not getting in each others shot and making sure the cameras match up. If you know these downsides you can then work on them to make them work for you
Remember you can never have too much footage but can always have too little.
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