Continuity

Continuity editing basically means making the film continuous in order to make it appear more realistic to the audience and to make it look better in general and more professional. It means putting the clips together in the correct order to make a scene run smoothly but keeping everything the same throughout these clips. For example if one of the characters in a clip is wearing a hat, when the camera changes shot, he needs to still be wearing the hat unless we see him remove it because it looks like the hat has just disappeared which comes across as sloppy. Also things in the background must be kept the same throughout.



This is a basic example of continuity editing, it shows a scene from a film that runs smoothly in order and everything is kept the same to make it look realistic.