Filmmaking Tips: That Thing Called “Continuity”

by Peter D. Marshall on March 17, 2010

This article was written by Rianne Hill.

“Have you ever noticed a scene where an actress’ bangs seen on the first shot doesn’t match the following shot of her in a close-up? Worse, have you ever noticed a scene where the actor is wearing a hat when seen from one camera angle and unreasonably loses his hat on the following shot from a different angle?

How about a man holding the prison bars differently from his first shot to his second shot? Or perhaps, the girl is wearing a different shade of lipstick from one shot to the next amidst the fact that the actions are just following each other?”

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