Continuity with shots

We will be making many moving image works this year ranging from documentary, to short fictional films and they will all require a high level of continuity in order to be taken seriously, look professional and try and create the right meanings and be believable from the spectators point of view.

Continuity is often amongst the first aspects of a film to be criticized and this comes naturally as the intention of the film is to be as realistic as possible and try to make the spectator buy into the ideas, characters and storylines in the ways they had intended.



Shot selection in particular can make the different between a free flowing, believable scene and one that is disjointed and doesn’t come off very well.



Of course, in certain cases a director may want the viewer to be confused or disorientated however the same principle of keeping the continuity in check and gathering the desired response from the audience is very important.


Continuity, Mise en Scene

We noticed whilst filming material for Malac that there were a few continuity errors in our scene. The props, some of which had consisted of candles had been removed from there position in the room after it was thought they wouldn’t be needed any longer. However, after trying out a different camera angle later on, we realised that the absence of these candles was evident in the shot and therefore we had to replace them in order to make the room appear as it was earlier during the filming. Mistakes like this are very easy to encounter when filmmaking and I think that clear planning and just a thoughtful method of going about scenes.