Post 3: Continuity





 

This picture shows how to draw movement when drawing your story board, if you draw an arrow on the inside of the box then you are showing your character's movement, however if you are to draw you arrow on the outside of the box then you are showing the movement of your camera.
If you want to show movement of the character then draw your character near the start of movement other wise your character would be running out of shoot.












Continuity

The definition of continuity i found was on http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Continuity.

Continuity is when in terms of media every shot should be continuous and accurate, it should be smooth and fluent. For example if in a scene in one shot a man has a beard wearing a scarf and in the next shot when the camera angle moves he doesn't have a beard or the scarf, it straight away shows bad continuity, as the viewer you will know that it cant be realistic.

This schematic shows the axis between two characters and the 180°
arc on which cameras may be positioned (green). When cutting from the
green arc to the red arc, the characters switch places on the screen.


180* Rule / Crossing the Line



The 180° rule is a basic guideline in film making that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. The new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/180_degree_rule)



Shot Reverse Shot

Shot reverse shot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other


(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_reverse_shot)

 Match On Action

Connects two shots cut together by having a character finish an action in the second shot begun in the first shot. For instance, if a character lights a match in the first shot, the same character will draw it up to a cigarette in the second.

(http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=active&defl=en&q=define:match+on+action&sa=X&ei=Z0O8TOzjN4-RjAecm9GqDg&ved=0CAYQkAE)