Continuity Editing

Continuity editing is a system of cutting between shots to maintain continuous and clear narrative action within the scene. Screen direction, position and temporal relations from shot to shot must match so that the effect is seamless. The 180 degree rule is essential, this is also known as the axis of action. It is how the audience sees the event and anything that moves around them will seem out of place. Below is a video I created in Final Cut Pro which uses a variety of camera shot from different angles, yet it flows continuously and the timing is perfect between the shots.

Sight Sound Motion - Herbert Zettl

CHAPTER 12 - TIME

• You need to achieve spatial/temporal order
• Efficiency is a measurement of how fast we do something
• Time is an essential factor in measuring the worth of work
• Time measured by a clock is known as 'clock time' or 'objective time'
• The time we experience is known as psychological time or 'subjective time'
• Four dimensional field is measured using objective and subjective
• Live television can capture, clarify, intensify, and distribute an event as it happens
• Real time is the time of the actual event
• When an event is handled in post production, the screen event is independent of the objective and subjective time