Preserving Continuity
It's what we'll use in the chase scene to preserve real-time movements across cuts.
What is match on action?
A method that speeds up time, usually to skip over unimportant details and to keep the chronology focused on plot points.
This is the reason why something like cigarette ash lengths, in error, might appear to grow an shrink in the final edit of the scene.
What is the use of multiple takes?
This rule states that all action should be filmed within a half-circle arc around a scene to preserve screen direction.
What is the 180-degree rule?
A YouTube vlogger might use these to cut out mistakes or even just eliminate pauses or inhales.
What are jump cuts?
What is the shot reverse shot pattern?
A continuity editing technique that slows down time, usually to increase suspense or drama.
What is expanded time?
This is an easy way to prevent liquid levels in drinks used as props in a scene from varying between takes.
What is the use of opaque drinking vessels?
This rule states that a change in angle within a sequence of shots should be great enough to be visually different enough to justify the shift.
What is the 30-degree rule?
A character is hanging from a threadbare rope, and not only does it take forever to break, but the hero seems to save them after the break should have put them out of reach.
What is expanded time?
This physical characteristic is one thing the actors in your chase scene will need to pay attention to in order to preserve continuity between days of shooting.
What is clothing continuity?
This freezes time long enough for the viewer to get a close-up look at a detail within the scene.
What is an insert shot?
This is the title of the person on set whose job it is to make sure continuity errors don't happen.
What is the script supervisor?
The term used for when the 30-degree rule is broken on purpose, sometimes with no camera angle change at all.
What is a jump cut?
When you all did the binoculars or peephole overlay in our POV discussion, the second shot in the sequence (i.e. what they were looking at) would be an example of this.
What is a cutaway (or eyeline match)?
When someone is shown paying attention to something outside of the frame, this ensures that we get to see what it is they're looking at.
What is eyeline match?
This type of shot cuts to something outside of the frame, sometimes to freeze time to give us an eyeline match or sometimes to show a reaction shot.
What is a cutaway?
This is what is broken when a shot reverse shot pattern has both speakers facing the same way.
What is screen direction?
The term used when a filmmaker breaks the 180-degree rule, either by accident or on purpose.
What is "crossing the line"?
in a scene at an awards show, we see the announcer, then cut to the winner's name on the card, then back to the announcer reading the name.
What is an insert shot?
If you change screen direction in your chase scene, this type of shot must appear between the scenes that switch from left-to-right to right-to-left.
What is a neutral shot? (also accepted: cutaway, shot on the line of action, camera movement crossing the line)
A series of jump cuts in a chase scene, moving a runner down a hallway in several jerky movements, would be illustrative of this continuity-breaking technique.
What is acceleration editing?
Two of the silly continuity errors included in JacksFilms' "Your Editing Lacks Continuity" video with the family sitting around the dinner table.
What are clothing inconsistencies, food transformations, missing (or replaced) people, moving table settings, etc.
This is the name of the imaginary barrier that the 180-degree rule says a camera must stay on one side of.
What is the action line (or line of action)?
An interviewer talks to their subject in a series of over-the-shoulder (OTS) shots, alternating between question and answer.
What is shot reverse shot?