Continuity in Film

Continuity in Film

Continuity in film is used to keep the audience engaged all the way through the film and for them to take notice little details like, the colour of a shirt and the style of someone's hair so it seems to the audience that it all happened on the same day if that's what the film wants to imply:

 

180 degree rule - The 180 degree rule is where the characters are inside the 180 degrees from the camera front because if you filmed on the other side, the people would have flipped sides and the audience would think that the whole shot had been reversed and may not makes sense or confuse the audience and it would seem unrealistic. Therefore you would be able to see a different background to the one shot before.

Shot-reverse shot - Shot-reverse shot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character 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. If it was shot from over opposite shoulders each time it would look like the character is wither talking to themselves or a wall.

 

 Match on action - Match on action is an editing technique for continuity and flow in a film. For example, A shot from the back of a room showing an actor walking towards a chair and about to sit down but as they sit down they cut to them sitting down from a different angle but it looks like it was shot at the same time as the first shot.