Cutting shots to tella story with narrative continuity, helping the viewer make sense of the action by implying spacial relationships and ensuring smooth flow from shot to shot.
Continuity Techniques
- Establishing shot (establishes the space in which action is to happen)
- The 180 degree rule (ensures that the same space is described in each shot)
- Shot/reverse shot
- Eyeline match (e.g. character looks off-screen, next shot shows us what they see)
- Match on action (character begins to move in one shot, we see continuation of the same moverment in the next shot)
- Realism (edit is invisible so action appears real, rather than constructed)
Non-Continuity
- Montage - giving information in compressed form
- Non-Continuity editing - continuity is broken and construction is more apparent. Meaning often created through juxtaposition and metaphor shot inserts
- Effect - being created to connote. Stretches reality usually to signify or give a metaphor for something
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