Project 6: Contuinity in a Film BLK

Cutaways

In the first few shots, there are many cutaways to, for example, the female protagonist's sword case pushing on the floor and stopping her from falling and her chair swerving around. This makes the flow of events clearer to the audience and adds a strong sense of successful continuity that the audience can interpret as one, continuous scene, as it has been shot so well.

Shot Reverse Shot

At the middle/end of the clip, the characters are having a conversation, and so that the reactions of both characters are portrayed to the audience, the editing from each character's face while talking and also when reacting, allows the audience to not only know what to feel at each moment and about each character, but also it's a general film convention to shoot conversations this way, so there is also audience satisfaction, although the conversation at the beginning is shot differently, maybe to connote the coldness and distance of the two characters towards each other.

180 Degree Rule 

There are two main angles in this shot, one with the camera facing the characters so that the female character is on the right and the male on the left, and after the action sequence, the male on the right and the female on the left. In both of these sequences, the camera stays on one side of the characters, which creates a sense of flow in the scene and doesn't confuse the audience. Also, it is not a problem that after the action sequence, the 180 degree rule has been reversed onto the other side, as a sense of space and location has already been established through the action sequence, as the audience is able to see the location, and as long as the 180 degree rule isn't broken in any of the two main angles shot, the director wouldn't need to worry of confusing the audience.

Match on Action 

Through this whole scene, but mainly the action sequence, the shots are edited so that when a movement happens in one shot, the next begins exactly at the point to which the previous one has ended, so that the sequence seems effortless and that it's all one continuous action shot.