Continuity Editing-Will

Continuity editing is the predominant style of editing in narrative cinema and television. The purpose of continuity editing is to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shots, so to make a smooth continues clip. There are common techniques of continuity editing that we used in our film. One of those was Diegetic sound; this sound has to occur in the story line, so for us there was the gun shot. Another common technique we used was match-on-action, this is where there was action before a questionable cut is then picked up were the cut left of from the previous shot, so for this we had me (the victim) walking up to the door and putting my hand on the door then cut, to me walking through the door but from the other side, but we had to maintain the previous shot, so if I started to open the door with my right hand in the first shot, I had to be doing it in the second. Those two techniques were the only ones we used, as a group we thought they worked well to help the flow of our movie, in our thriller opening we would hope to use some more techniques, so flash back, fade out etc.