Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Continuity shots


This lesson we began learning about the continuity within a scene.
This means the way you film and edit something so it looks as though it flows. There are three types of continuity; Match on action, Shot Rev/Shot, and180 degree rule

180 degree rule- :
If you move 180 degrees the characters are still standing in the right place, for example 1 character stays on the left and the other on the right no matter what angle so they do not look as though they have moved.

 In the following video you can witness the 180 degree rule being broken, you can see the shots moving and the characters look as though they have moved meaning the whole scene does not flow as the audience can tell where the shots have ended and then been edited.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3myRRZkErs

Match on action: James 

Its an Editing technique used during action for continuity, its where the action begins and then you suddenly cut to another shot portraying the action of the subject in the first shot. also its an effective way of making action look realistic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyZFgL36pqE

This is a link that shows an example of Match on Action

Shot Reverse/ Shot: Georgina 


Short reverse shot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing each other in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvof8mI6pXk&feature=related

^ A Youtube link which shows basic shot reverse shot within 'Amst 109'






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