Preliminy Research.

Continuity editing is where you select the good parts of the film and edit them together to make a good movie,and a story line, which is something that the eye can do naturally. The two categories include 'Temporal cutting' and 'Spatial cutting'. This also means that you can put in special effects and animations after the scene has been shot.

Temporal cutting is showing the audience that the narrative has changed. Also temporal cutting connotes shots to support the narrative development and may be linear progression or not, flashback or flash forward establishes the progression of time.

Spatial cutting is used to create unfilled space through editing shots from different sort of angles and framing shot/reverse shot. Kuleshov effect and parallel editing. Spatial Editing also has a 180 degree rule where you have to imagine there is a line going across separating the room in two. The camera women or man have to follow these rules to stay on one side. If the camera women/man was to change sides they have to show the camera movement because if you didn't show the movement it wouldn't make the film more realistic as it should. There has to be 30 degrees between the shots of the same subject, if their wasn't it would make the film look unnatural and bizarre.

When the camera women is filming a conversation between two people the best camera shot to use is called the 'over the shoulder shot' because when the camera is focusing on the person speaking it will engage the audience to listen carefully to the conversation. Also when using the 'over shoulder shot' its clear to see their facial expressions. An example of this is in the film 'Mean girls' Another name for this is the shot reverse shot as then the camera normally switches to the other actors shoulder. This shot is normally used for dialogue between two people and can focus in on the person talking.

This is a match action shot from Johnny English Reborn. here we can see the scene opens to a long shot, then as the action unfolds it zooms in to a medium shot but still has the same focus point in that shot. It has zoomed in to this shot so we can see the emotion on the actors face which makes the scene more effective.

I think that continuity editing is very important in the process of shooting a film. I think this because  it's important that the transition between shots run as smooth as possible to ensure that the audience has maximum enjoyment and excitement form the film and no attention is drawn to the change in shot. Without it wouldn't make the film run smoothly it would jump between different shots, also it creates a more stable platform viewing and helps the audience not to be not disturbed by the transitions.


Filmography
2004 - Mean Girls (Mark Waters)
2011 - Johnny English Reborn - Olivia Parker