Continuity Editing

Continuity Editing 

Continuity editing is when you film through out the film with no jump cuts, furthermore this also consists of having the same costume and props through out the film. For example one scene is when they have to wear a blue shirt and then you cannot wear a different shirt they will have to start the film back to the start and film from the beginning. Furthermore continuity editing uses different types of techniques and they are: 

• Diegetic Sound
• Match on action 
• Ellipsis
• 180 degrees rotation  

and there are many more different types of techniques which can be used in continuity editing.

Match on action is when you record a shot in one room and follow through by shooting in a different room. For example if you have someone recording somebody leaving a room and you see them open the door you go to the other side of the door and record them leaving without having any jump cuts in the middle of it, so this has to run in a continuos flow.

This clip above shows a women coming in and going through books then she takes the book opens it and we see what she is reading by a different shot and then another shot looking at her and the book.


180 degree rotation rule is when you start at one side of a conversation and the rotate 180 degrees to the other side and see the conversation at the part, this means that they have to do this regularly every time that one person speaks and o it the other side when the other person speaks.







In this clip above this shows that this movie called the shining uses the 180 degrees rule, however they have broke the 180 degree rule due to the fact that they want to confuse the audience by making them realise what is going on in the film.