'Continuity Editing' is what became knows as the popular 'classical Hollywood' style of editing.
This was developed by early European and American directors, in particular D.W. Griffith in his films such as The Birth of a Nation.
The classical style ensures temporal (time) and spatial (space) continuity as a way of advancing narrative, using such technique as the 180 degree rule, Match on Action, and Shot, Reverse Shot.
Our Task:
Our task is to film a short sequence that demonstrates our understanding of the key conventions of continuity editing.
We are to work in a small group for this task. We are to assign the following roles:
Directors
Camera Operators
2 X Actors
Our sequence must take place in school and should have at least two characters. We are to demonstrate the following conventions:
Match on Action
Eye-line Match
Shot, Reverse Shot
180 degree rule
Point of View
Match In Action:
In the film that we have produced we have included Match in action in our film. We had myself to open the door from the outside of the room and the next scene shows me going through the door to the inside of the room. This shows a continuity within the film.
If I had started opening the door from the outside of the room and the next scene shows me just opening the door from the outside of the room, that wouldn't be a match in action technique as it doesn't show any continuity from the last scene.
Eye-Line Match:
We have used eye-line match technique in this film. We had Allegria to text her friend Diana ( that's me) and to show this, we had recorded her looking down her phone where as the next scene shows her messaging me with the phone and the text showing.
If we had filmed Allegria looking down at her phone and the next scene is just from a different angle of her phone showing, it wouldn't be an eye-line match example as it doesn't fully show what's Allegria's looking at.
Shot, Reverse Shot:
We have included the use of shot, reverse shot technique in our film. We all know that shot, reverse shot is done by showing the person talking and the camera was positioned at the back of one of the two people while one of that person's back is being shown in the camera. And to reverse it, we are to do it the same with the other person.
This is how we did our shot, reverse shot. We had filmed one of the person talking and the camera was positioned at the shoulder side of one of the person. And for the reverse shot, we did the exact technique we did with the other person.
If we had filmed this scene in where the camera was positioned at the side of both characters, this wouldn't be called a shot, reverse shot as you are only moving the camera from left to right to show which person is speaking.
180 Degree Rule:
In our film we used the 180 degree rule by moving the camera just around the 180 degree line. If we had went over the 180 degree line even just by few degrees like 182/3 degree, your scene where you had person A at the left will now appear at the right side as you have went over the 180 degree rule.
Conclusion:
We had carried each different technique well as with the match-on action, we were able to show the scene where I was opening the door and it shows the bit where the handle was shown clearly and the scene after that shows the time when I went through the door from the outside and it had shown a continuity within the film.
In eye-line match, we had clearly showed what Allegria was looking at and that she was looking directly on to her phone since the scene after that shows the actual phone in where she is messaging me so we can meet up.
With the shot, reverse shot, we managed to show each person speaking by taking a shot of them from the back of one of the character. We had the camera positioned at the right back side of that person so that the other person is being shown in shoulder with the person she is talking to.
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