30 May 2011

Continuity

During the editing process, we struggled a lot with continuity editing. Having a continuous shot would be boring by itself, and so during filming, we took different takes of the same scene as Christine had suggested.
The challenge was then to cut it and put it together in a way that would not look too awkward, but natural.

The 180 Degree Rule



It was important not to cross the line of axis when filming narration between Joe/MarySue, Joe/Office.
During editing, we found that one of the scenes, when MarySue was giving her speech, didn't include POV shots of her of Joe. The ones that we had had the distorted audio, and the ones that we tried to put in defied the 180 degree rule, which made the shot look funny.

During our reshoot, we were aware of the position Mary Sue was in when filming her POV, so we didn't 'cross the line'.

We also had to be very aware of continuity,

As we had a lot of office props and decoration during our first take, we had to be careful not to shoot parts of the office where we did not bring the same props in for continuity's sake.

Continuity is a big part of editing to ensure that 'time' isn't confused in the movie and that the movie flows smoothly.

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