Continuity editing is the professional style of film editing and video editing in the post-production way of film-making of narrative films and television programs. It involves diffident within it such as match-on-action, shot reverse shot/eye-line match and also the 180° rule. Continuity editing consists of four micro elements such as:
- Editing
- Mise-en-scene
- Camera-work/ Cinematography
- Sound
It's to smooth out any of the inherent of discontinuity, of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shot of actors.
Common techniques of continuity editing
We looked at 3 main different styles of continuity editing.
Shot-reverse-shot technique (eye-line match):
Is a film technique where one character is looking often off-screen at another character or object, and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character or object. Normally characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewers perception is they are looking at each other.
Match-on-action technique:
Is used in filming to show the consistency between 2 shots connecting together causing it to be dramatic and creating tension. It's an editing technique for continuity editing in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action from the subject in the first shot, this creates the impression of a sense of continuity- the action carrying through creates a a 'visual bridge' which draws the viewer's attention from the slight cutting.
180° Rule:
In filming the 180° rule is a guideline that members in scene should have the same left-right relationship to each other. Making sure the screen spatial awareness is filmed on one side of the 180° line, this allows the audience to have a greater sense of the location in the scene in terms of what may be off-screen in some shots, for example in shot reverse shots .
Common techniques of continuity editing
We looked at 3 main different styles of continuity editing.
Shot-reverse-shot technique (eye-line match):
Is a film technique where one character is looking often off-screen at another character or object, and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character or object. Normally characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewers perception is they are looking at each other.
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| Example of shot-reverse-shot |
Is used in filming to show the consistency between 2 shots connecting together causing it to be dramatic and creating tension. It's an editing technique for continuity editing in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action from the subject in the first shot, this creates the impression of a sense of continuity- the action carrying through creates a a 'visual bridge' which draws the viewer's attention from the slight cutting.
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| Layout of 180° rule |
180° Rule:
In filming the 180° rule is a guideline that members in scene should have the same left-right relationship to each other. Making sure the screen spatial awareness is filmed on one side of the 180° line, this allows the audience to have a greater sense of the location in the scene in terms of what may be off-screen in some shots, for example in shot reverse shots .
To round things off ...V for Vendetta.
LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!!!
LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!!!
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