Monday, 14 November 2016

Continuity

Film continuity refers to the consistency of different plot devices, people and outfits amongst other things over a period of time.

180° Line of Action
When filming takes place on only one side of a 180° axis in which typically two actors are situated. This way of filming ensures actor 1 is on the stage left of actor 2 and vice versa. Breaking this rule and choosing to cross the axis is referred to as ‘shooting in the round’. The 180° Line of Action refers to the imaginary axis in which the actors are situated.

Shot-reverse-shot
This refers to when one character is shown to be looking at another character, one who is typically off-screen, whilst the other character is shown to be looking back at the original character in order to simulate the ideology that the two characters are looking at each other.



Match on action
Referring to video editing techniques in which the editor cuts from one scene to another yet the two actions of characters within that seen are relevant to each other. An example of this would be a scene in which a character turns a doorknob and a transition to another scene takes place in which the door opens from the other side. The shot of the initial scene is directly related to the subsequent one.

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