Directing and continuity
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This document discusses continuity in filmmaking. It explains that continuity ensures that all shots and details in a video add up to a smooth presentation without mismatches. Maintaining continuity is the responsibility of the director, assisted by the script supervisor. It emphasizes paying attention to small details like items, positions, and dialogue to match between shots, even if they are filmed on different days. It concludes by asking how continuity will be maintained for actors and themselves across multiple filming days.
Directing and continuity
- 1. Warm Up What are three things you learned about directing yesterday? __________________________________ Storyboards due Tomorrow Folders due next Thursday
- 2. Directing and Continuity Interactive Notebook Page 84
- 3. Continuity Have you ever watched a movie and noticed that an item was suddenly in a different place or a person suddenly looked different? Or they were suddenly standing in a different spot? This is a problem with continuity.
- 4. Continuity Continuity is the complex process of ensuring that all the small pieces of a video (the shots and the details recorded in them) add up to a smooth, consistent whole. A program with good continuity appears to be a single continuous presentation that has no mismatches in information, action, or screen direction.
- 5. Continuity Maintaining good continuity is the responsibility of the director. The script supervisor assists the director in this task.
- 6. Continuity of Information In shots that include duplicate or overlapping action, the details should all be the same. Dialogue and physical details should match from take to take. If the actor is holding a glass in the medium shot, he should still be holding it in the close up. Since all shots may not be recorded in the same day, it’s very important to pay attention to the small details.
- 7. Continuity in Your Project How will you make sure that your actors look the same from day to day? How are you going to make sure you look the same from day to day?