Task 7 - Understanding Continuity Editing

Continuity Editing

What became known as the popular 'Classical Hollywood' style of editing was developed by early European and American directors, in particular . D.W. Griffith in his films such as The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance. Continuity Editing are usually used in many films, televisions and genre. Editors use this because it gives more high advanced features when their editing the producing and editing the film itself. It helps retain a sense of realistic chronology and generates the feeling that time is moving forward. This means you cant use a flashback for flash forward as long as the narrative will still be seen to be progressing forward in an expected  or realistic.

Match on Action

We see a character start an action in one shot, the camera then cuts to a different angle and we see the character finish the action in the second shot.



Eye-line Match

When a character looking at something off screen and then we cut to a shot of what they are looking at. Its important that the film maker uses this because it give the audience on what the actors are looking at. If the film maker doesn't use it, this will confuse the audience on the film there are watching.





Shot, Reverse Shot

The first shot reveals on character and then the second shot reveals the second character. A film maker would use them to show the audience two characters having a conversation giving them more details on what both of the characters are discussing about and what each of them are saying.





108 Degree Rule

The 180 rule is a basic guideline that states that two characters or other elements - in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other.