Editing Style Continuity

Continuity 

For part of our coursework we have to make a preliminary film, showing continuity in our film. therefore in class we have looked at clips of films where they use continuity editing to look like they filmed everything in a day. the term continuity means, when a moving image is continuos and there's no mistakes and everything looks as if it's filmed in a day. This is done in movies to show the sense of realism can be portrayed. Therefore everything in the scene stays the exact same for the period time of filming. this ranges from camera angles and positions of objects, costumes, props and hair. for example in one shot the characters clothes brown then in another shot it's green it'll look weird and will show no sense of realism in the scene. there are multiple techniques and rules to follow, for the art of continuity to make realism in the scene they are:

Eye line match

A eyeline match is when we see a character looking at something off screen and then it cuts to a shot of what they are looking at

Match on action

A match on action shot is when we see a character start an action in one shot and then see them continue the action it in the next scene.

Graphic match

A graphic match is when two shots are linked with a smilier shape or composition of an image.

Shot reverse shot

A shot reverse shot is when two people are tending to have an argument or conversation and the camera has a shot of one character talking and then the other character talking, for example in Psycho when Norman Bates has a conversation with Marion Carine,  a shot reverse shot is used to show that they're having a conversation.

180 Degree rule

The 180 degree rule is a basic guideline that states that two characters in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. for example in the hunger games @34 Minutes they deliberately break the 180 degree rule. Because you can notice how the camera has moved from left to right.