Continuity Editing.

Continuity Editing.

Whats involved in Continuity Editing:

• Establishing Shot
• Re-establishing Shot
• Shot/Reverse Shot
• 180 Degree
• Crosscutting
• Match On Action
• Eyeline Match

Definition:

A method of cutting use to maintain continuous and clear narrative action by following a set of rules.

Establishing Shot: A long or extreme shot that has loose framing, showing the spatial relationship between the most important figures, objects and settings.

Re-establishing Shot: A shot that returns back to a view of a space/location after a lot of close ups.

Shot/Reverse Shot: This is when two shots are edited together that alternate characters. this is normally done in conversation situation. Its normally in one frame someone is looking left in the next the other is looking right.

180 Degree: This is when there is an angle between any two consecutive shots should not exceed 180 degrees to maintain spatial relationships between both people and objects, in any sequence of shots.

Crosscutting: This is editing that alternates between two shots that are happening at the same time.

Eyeline Match: A cut that is done between two shots. The first person is off into one direction and in the second one it shows either what the first person can see or someone looking back at them in exactly the opposite direction.

Match On Action: This is a cut between two different shots that places two different frames that are of the same action next to each other making it seem to continue uninterpreted. 

 

Me and my friend, Rianne had recorded our very first piece and as you can see there are a lot of issues with it. I personally think that our story line was first of all very complex and we focused more on that rather then our media skills. Our continuity is very off as we filmed this piece over a series of days therefore you can see that the clothing in some scenes do not match. There are also parts where the camera is both shaky and there is background noise, also we didn't know how to use the camera properly at the time and when we thought we had pressed record we actually hadn't. When it comes to filming our movie trailers next academic year I will make sure to learn from these mistakes.