课程: Creating a Short Film: 05 Directing

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Maintaining continuity

Maintaining continuity

- Continuity is a continual theme of these training courses. That's because filmmaking is about breaking the script into shoot-able chunks, shooting those chunks, and then reassembling them in the edit. Amateur filmmakers are often myopic during production and that carelessness often transfers to an edit that doesn't work. Part of being a storyteller is making sure that you avoid things that draw attention to yourself as the storyteller. As storytellers, we become invisible when we can successfully create the illusion that the audience is just watching a scene play out in real time. We're invisible when they don't notice that the reverses were shot hours, days, or weeks apart, when it just feels natural. Any noticeable breaks in the continuity between shots, and changes in lighting, actions of the characters, tone of the acting performances, anything will break that illusion. On set, you usually have someone who's sole job it is to make sure that there's continuity from shot to shot…

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