Continuity practise

Continuity practise


Continuity editing means a system of cutting use to maintain and clear narrative action.


Rules:
Establishing shot
Shot/Reverse shot
180 rule
30 rule
Cross cutting
Match on action
Eye line match
Re-establishing shot


The preliminary task for the brief was to require an understanding of continuity, which is a fundamental principle of moving image production. Continuity adds realism. When the
continuity rules are followed, the plot and story can unfold which allows the audience to predict what happens in each shot. For example if a character boards a train in shot 1, seen sitting reading a paper in shot 2, asleep with the same paper folded in shot 3 and getting off the train in shot 4, the audience will not think the train journey was short. It shows between shot 1-4 nothing significant happened. If the rule was broken the character may have appeared to move seats, which will disrupt the flow of the sequence.

For our exploration of continuity editing, we decided to do a interview using shot revers shot, match on action and mid shots. For our match on action we had someone walking through the door. 

Preliminary work

In our preliminary we had to make a short one and half minute video focusing on a conversation. Our preliminary exercise is about an interviewee going for a job interview at a scientific company, in which he talks too the companies CEO. During the exercise we had to show good use of match-on-action, shot-reverse-shot and 180 degree rule. The link is below of the finished product:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlYzK_7dcXQ