Continuity Supervisor, 4th Edition

Matching Continuity

Checking

Once you have established continuity on a shot that has been taken then any shot that, in the final edited version, will cut into or onto that shot will need to match for continuity.

In matching continuity, therefore, you are not so much involved in writing fresh notes but in checking. You check the artists’ costume against your notes and photographs; you check the props against your drawings. You check that the camera angle is not going to cross the line so that objects and people jump in frame. During the rehearsals and the shooting you check the dialogue and that the actors’ actions are the same and happen at the same time in relation to the dialogue as the shot already taken. In other words, you are not busy writing ...