In some instances, you may need to shoot a scene several times from different angles. This allows you to piece together the film shot from different camera angles into one scene, even though you are only using one camera. It is important for the actors to perform the scene exactly the same way each time, so the final cut looks like it was filmed once using multiple cameras.
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