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Even huge films and successful directors still manage to break continuity from time to time, here are examples of some successful films that have made movie mistakes:
Techniques to stop breaking continuity
This video from YouTube demonstrates the 180 degree rule and how you can break continuity by this rule, it shows once you have established a scene, you have also established where the characters are (the 180 degree rule) and that throughout the film you must stay at the same side of the room to not break the rule which will confuse the viewer. This video also shows you how you can break the 180 degree rule without breaking continuity- through tracking around the couple to show the audience that the camera is moving round, this must not be edited out as this would confuse the audience because they will be on opposite sides and the characters eye-lines would not match.
You can also not abide by the 180 degree rule when film someone walking up a flight of stairs because the person is only going one direction- up, filming at the back, left or right doesn't change the vision of the scene.
Another way of not breaking continuity is filming your character going through a door way. Same idea as the stairs, they are still going one way-forward, this means it doesn't matter which side you chose to film at as it will not effect the scene.
During our Short film, we are wanting to use a variety of shots, this video shows us how to use different varieties of shots in scenes. I found this video useful as it showed a variety of different shots and how these are presented to the audience.
The 30 Degree Rule Page
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