Chapter | Fourteen
Continuity
OVERVIEW
Continuity is the catch-all term for most of those blips and mistakes that make up your blooper reel. Here’s how to ensure continuity is perfect each time.
Continuity is a way of making sure that a scene makes visual and verbal sense when we watch it.
Movies don’t get shot in sequence, and some parts of the same scene might be shot days apart but edited so they look like everything happened in one continuous flow of events.
On a movie, continuity is the job of the Script Supervisor, who has to note every detail of a shot to make sure that continuity errors like the following don’t creep in:
- In Spider-Man, Mary Jane gets mugged but Spidey fights off the four muggers and throws two of them through ...
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