Prelim Post Production Blog

The purpose of continuity editing is to establish the logical coherence between shots. It also is to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process. It is very important to follow a specific film language because it ensures that only the relvent story points are shown. this is to minipulate time and space in the narrative, to basically force the audience to identify with the right characters, this is to make sure that the story line is clear and that it makes sense to the audience.


for our editing we had the task to do logging shots. So we had to choose the appropriate for our film, from our various takes of each angle. The reason why rejecting and selecting the different shot choices is important is because we had to match each of our scenes together correctly to make it clear to the audience what is going on in our storyline. And so the scenes we selected were the best scene we managed to do and so that would make our project better and the ones we rejected were the scenes which did not make sense. and the scenes, which were not done very well and so if we did not reject them they would make our project a confusing piece and so we had to reject those particular shots. so rejecting and selecting shots was to let us find our best fit of the takes. So we didn't do this to just have the overall best example, we wanted it to make sense and we wanted to make the scenes fit together well.


When we organised our shots we made sure they fitted to the story line. This was very important because we had to make our film interesting and for it to make sense to the audience. so we selected are shots to best tell our story. We focused on who had the most camera time to show who was the main part of this filming and we used close ups to show the acters expression to also make the audience more interested in the storyline. these things determined the storyline in a clear way.


So while we organised our shots we had to put our shots in order to also make the storyline clearer. So certain shots had to be put into order to explain the continuity and how it controls the story and information. We put shots in order because we also wanted to show link to something in our story.


Finally we did our final cutting. This was to add on dramatic effects to the storyline. We use a montage sequence between the two people speaking to eachother to create tension in the scene. We cut to people in different areas to show where they were and what they were doing. So we cut from both characters speaking to one persons mouth to create a dramatic build up to what may happen next.