This document discusses continuity in filmmaking. It explains that continuity ensures that all shots and details in a video add up to a smooth presentation without mismatches. Maintaining continuity is the responsibility of the director, assisted by the script supervisor. It emphasizes paying attention to small details like items, positions, and dialogue to match between shots, even if they are filmed on different days. It concludes by asking how continuity will be maintained for actors and themselves across multiple filming days.

1. Warm Up
 What are three things you learned
about directing yesterday?
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2. Directing and Continuity
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3. Continuity
 Have you ever watched a movie and
noticed that an item was suddenly in a
different place or a person suddenly
looked different? Or they were suddenly
standing in a different spot?
 This is a problem with continuity.

4. Continuity
 Continuity is the complex process of
ensuring that all the small pieces of a
video (the shots and the details
recorded in them) add up to a smooth,
consistent whole.
 A program with good continuity appears to be
a single continuous presentation that has no
mismatches in information, action, or screen
direction.

5. Continuity
 Maintaining good continuity is the
responsibility of the director. The
script supervisor assists the
director in this task.

6. Continuity of Information
 In shots that include duplicate or
overlapping action, the details should
all be the same.
 Dialogue and physical details should
match from take to take.
 If the actor is holding a glass in the medium
shot, he should still be holding it in the close
up.
 Since all shots may not be recorded in the
same day, it’s very important to pay attention
to the small details.

7. Continuity in Your Project
 How will you make sure that your
actors look the same from day to day?
 How are you going to make sure you
look the same from day to day?