Continuity editing
Continuity editing is one of the main styles of film editing and video, this type of editing is used in television,film and in a narrative genre, editors use it to show a scene so that the editing is mostly unnoticeable, smooth with no inherent discontinuity of editing.
There are 4 rules of continuity:
1) 180 degree rule
2) Match-on-action
3) The Eye line match
4) Shot/reverse shot
180 degree rule
This rule is usually used to when demonstrating a a conversation between characters. The rule proclaims that the characters presented should always have the same left/right relationship to each other, therefore the camera must stay on one side of the action and objects in a scene. In this rule there's something called a invisible line and if the camera crosses the line its called crossing the line and it will make it seem as the characters swapped positions on the screen. So the best is if the camera only stay on one side of the line.
To make everything seem more realistic, when you are having a conversation with someone you do not switch places every 5 minutes, so why should the people in films do it. If they didn't use this type of technique people wouldn't enjoy watching the show, film, whatever it is because it doesn't give a sense of reality, and also because people would get confused and they wouldn't be able to follow everything at the dot. If they didn't use this technique the people that are being filmed would change places without even realising, because there wouldn't be no one reminding them that they were in the other way around.
Match on Action
This type of technique links two shots together, like for example if a character is going up the hill, so we don't get bored by seeing the whole process up, the editors decided to just use some parts of each shoo and link it, they may choose to show the person getting ready to go up, then in the middle of the heel and lastly at the top, they do this by starting in one shot then the camera cuts into a different angle , then we see the character finish the action in the last shot.
This is usually used so the scene its not too long, or unnecessary scenes are not used, if film-makers didn't use this technique the film wouldn't be as interesting, and the action wouldn't seem so natural and realistic.
Eye-line Match
This type of technique also links two shots together, we see the character looking at something an then we are able to visualize what they are looking at, fun right its like you can play a game try and guess what they are looking at, and then check if you were correct. First the character looks at something off- screen second the image cuts what the character its looking at, third we see clearly the character expressing and try to guess what is he\she looking at, fourth we see a close up of what the character is looking.
This type of technique also links two shots together, we see the character looking at something an then we are able to visualize what they are looking at, fun right its like you can play a game try and guess what they are looking at, and then check if you were correct. First the character looks at something off- screen second the image cuts what the character its looking at, third we see clearly the character expressing and try to guess what is he\she looking at, fourth we see a close up of what the character is looking.
They do this technique because this makes you feel like you are there looking at the same thing as the character, experiencing the same moment. If they didn't use this we would be a little off,because they would just show the character looking at something that we wouldn't have a chance to know what it was, and I believe that its more difficult making a film without this then with this.
Like the other 2 above this is used to link two shots together, this works when showing a conversation between multiple individuals, they first shots shows one character, then the second shots reveals the other.An example of this would be if two people were having an interaction, one of them said something, so the camera would be on that persons face, then the other said something else and the camera would just follow it, and so on, but sometimes they may show someone that it's not talking so we could see their reaction, while the opposite person that its not being showed is talking.
Eye Line Match, This Technique was used in my video when i sowed my fellow peer, mercy looking into the window. We show her looking at something, then in the next scene we show what she was looking at. I believe that we use the technique right and it showed the essential. The next one we used is
Match on Action, we used this to link two scenes together as you can see above, we used this when Abigail and myself were walking and because we knew that if we showed us walking the whole way, would it make a long scene we used match on action which sowed us when we began walking and then when we entered the building. I believe that we used this technique wisely because we only added what was supposed to be added so it wouldn't be so long.
The third technique used was shot reverse shot this is used in a conversation between two people, and instead of showing both at the same time, you only show one in one shot then the other in the other shot, we used this when me and Abigail were talking, we showed my face first then moved the camera to Abigail face. We applied this correctly because we showed first one then the other. I believe that we made one mistake while editing because we didn't show a third person talking.
The last one is the 180-degree rule, we applied this technique when once again every part that two people were doing an action, like for example me and Abigail walking when we did the match on action, this happened because we stayed in the correct position, me on the right an Abigail on the left, the whole time.
Shot Reverse Shot
Like the other 2 above this is used to link two shots together, this works when showing a conversation between multiple individuals, they first shots shows one character, then the second shots reveals the other.An example of this would be if two people were having an interaction, one of them said something, so the camera would be on that persons face, then the other said something else and the camera would just follow it, and so on, but sometimes they may show someone that it's not talking so we could see their reaction, while the opposite person that its not being showed is talking.
Film-makers use this so the audience can correct with both characters, and see their interaction, its mostly like the eye-line match, but instead of showing at hat you looking at, it shows who you are talking to. If this wasn't used in the film industry I believe that it would be have the same issue as eye-line match , the audience wouldn't be bale to understands it, because they would have to guess who is the person talking to.
Eye Line Match, This Technique was used in my video when i sowed my fellow peer, mercy looking into the window. We show her looking at something, then in the next scene we show what she was looking at. I believe that we use the technique right and it showed the essential. The next one we used is
Match on Action, we used this to link two scenes together as you can see above, we used this when Abigail and myself were walking and because we knew that if we showed us walking the whole way, would it make a long scene we used match on action which sowed us when we began walking and then when we entered the building. I believe that we used this technique wisely because we only added what was supposed to be added so it wouldn't be so long.
The third technique used was shot reverse shot this is used in a conversation between two people, and instead of showing both at the same time, you only show one in one shot then the other in the other shot, we used this when me and Abigail were talking, we showed my face first then moved the camera to Abigail face. We applied this correctly because we showed first one then the other. I believe that we made one mistake while editing because we didn't show a third person talking.
The last one is the 180-degree rule, we applied this technique when once again every part that two people were doing an action, like for example me and Abigail walking when we did the match on action, this happened because we stayed in the correct position, me on the right an Abigail on the left, the whole time.
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