What is Continuity?
- Continuity editing is the dominant style of film editing in the western world and most cinematic cultures around the rest of the globe.
- Its purpose is to 'smooth' over the essential discontinuity of the process of editing and to establish a logical coherence between sequences and the constitutive shots from which they are composed.
- The act of cutting represents a detraction from the continuous progression of a piece of action in real time.
-Removing or adding frames condenses or expands the time of the original action.
- If we cut from one angle to another there is a noticeable break from the continuous action of the first take to the new shot.
- The task of the continuity editor is to reduce that notice ability, so that the viewer's immersion in the story is under disturbed.
- Continuity editing is a process which attempts to make deviations from the continuous real time action of a single stretch of footage as inconspicuous as possible.
- Editors achieve logical coherence by cutting to continuity where the emphasis is on smooth transitions of time and space.
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