Task 1 Continuity & Moviola (AS1)

Continuity 

Continuity became known as the popular Hollywood style of editing. Many directors used especially D.W Griffith in his films 'Birth of a Nation' and 'Intolerance' ensures that it is a way of advancing narrative, using techniques such as: 180 degree rule, establishing shot and shot reverse shot. All of the edits below allow the action to be continued into the next shot. 

Eye line match- this where the camera films the actor looking at something off screen and then we cut, then show a shot of what they were looking at.

Match on action- we see a character start an action in one shot and then see them continue it in the next. An example is some walking through a door.

Graphic match- is a cut in film editing between either two different objects or spaces in which an object graphically match this helps to continue the action into another shot this links one scene to another. We see an example of this in Psyhco by Alfred Hitchcock. This is when we see a image in a shape of circle which is a plug and then it goes on to showing a woman's eye. 

The First Moviola

Before the widespread of non linear editing systems the initial editing of all film was done with a positive copy of the film negative called a film work print (Cutting and copying)by physically cutting and pasting together pieces of the film using a splicer and threading the film on a machine with a viewer such as a Moviola

Today most films are edited digitally on systems like: Avid and Final Cut Pro the film positive work and print together. With the advent of (DI) digital intermediate the physical negative does not need to be cut and spliced together.