Continuity of Action and Dialogue
What happens when there is dialogue as well?
Example 1: A presenter of a programme is coming to the end of a long piece spoken ‘to camera’. He moves off, out of frame after saying ‘We pass on to the next exhibit’. The second angle is a wide exit shot, and he repeats the end of his piece and then moves off. But he starts to move off on the words ‘We pass on…’.
If those two shots were cut together there would either be a loss of action (a jump cut), or double dialogue: ‘We pass on’ on the first angle, and again ‘We pass on’ repeated on the second angle.
In such a case the editor would either use the ugly jump cut, or stay on one shot only. Obviously the dialogue cannot be repeated. Either way it spoils the intended ...
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