Continuity Editing

Continuity Editing

Continuity Editing is a predominant style of film editing in the post-production process of filmmaking. The purpose of continuity editing is to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shots. Continuity editing wants to create a smooth flow between all of the clips so that the narrative story will be obvious without unnecessary interruptions and to ensure that there is continuity in the film.  In the film there doesn't want to be any jump cuts of people appearing in different shots and that there is not different lighting or background sounds in different angles of the same scene.

 Here is an example of continuity editing:



This is our example of continuity editing: