Liam's Homework

 

Continuity

 

Continuity is used to keep the audience focused on the action and maintain continuous and clear narrative action.

180 Rule – The angle between any two consecutive shots should not exceed 180 in order to maintain spatial relationships between people and objects in any given sequence of shots. By using this it allows the audience to have a greater sense of location in the scene in terms of what may be off screen in some shots.

 

 

 

Shot reverse Shot – This is two shots that are edited together that alternate characters, typically in a conversation situation. Usually characters in one frame look left and in the following frame look right. For example using medium close up to show the emotion of the people talking and switching between the two showing one conversation but both people.

Match on action – This is an editing technique for continuity editing in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject in the first shot. This creates the impression of continuity with the action carrying through which will draw the viewer attention away from slight cutting or continuity issues.