Post 3: Continuity

Continuity: "Continuity is particularly a concern in the production of film and television due to the difficulty of rectifying an error in continuity after shooting has wrapped up." Continuity is when you keep the consistency throughout the shot, this often effects the mise-en-scene the most as the audience can often tell if a character has changed their costume or a prop is no longer where it originally was. 

Below are two photographs that show how continuity is broken, the pens have been moved from the shot and you cannot see them in the next. This is an example of bad and broken continuity that my group and I should be careful of when filming.

Broken Continuity. 

180 degree rule: "In film making, the 180-degree rule is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene. An imaginary line called the axis connects the characters and by keeping the camera on one side of this axis for every shot in the scene, the first character will always be frame right of the second character, who is then always frame left of the first. If the camera passes over the axis, it is called jumping the line or crossing the line." To the left is a photograph explaining the crossing line and how to keep within the basic 180 degree rule, this will be helpful to my group and I when it comes to filming our project for the brief. To the right is an example of how the 180 degree rule would be put into practice, the image shows it being used correctly as well as an example of the 180 degree rule being broken.

Shot reverse shot: "Shot reverse shot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other." Shot reverse shot is when a camera shows one character looking at another, followed by the camera showing the second character looking back to the first. Below is a demonstration of shot reverse shot between two characters.

Match on action: "Cutting on action or matching on action refers to film editing and video editing techniques where the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first shot's action.Although the two shots may have actually been shot hours apart from each other, cutting on action gives the impression of continuous time when watching the edited film. By having a subject begin an action in one shot and carry it through to completion in the next, the editor creates a visual bridge, which distracts the viewer from noticing the cut or noticing any slight continuity error between the two shots." Match on action is when editors show one action shot then cut over to another different view which matches the first shot's action.