continuity
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6.3
- noun
- /ˌkɒn.tɪˈnjuː.ɪ.ti/
- Jargon
:
continuidad (de rodaje)
- To maintain visual continuity, the director ensured that all scenes were filmed in chronological order.
- continuity editing
Examples
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Script girl uses these for continuity.
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And yet he was one of the top continuity men in the business.
Fiction book (1996) -
You can see the bad continuity coming up in this scene.
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One would think that a main reason for that is to avoid continuity errors.
Blog text (27) -
The show does have some minor continuity issues with regard to chronology.
Blog text (25) -
A blooper is a mistake that the producers or continuity editors made.
Academic text (2002) -
Children's programs now have the same or better continuity than a serialized Dickens novel.
Blog text (28) -
Part of the reason you see all those huge pieces of laundry and blankets hanging up, is that there's so much snow on the other side of them that it would be a huge break in continuity with the film.
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Likewise, editing (and primarily continuity editing) remains the lingua franca of filmmaking the world over.
Academic text (2009) -
A certain amount of redundancy seems inevitable in continuity, but good continuity assures that omissions as well as repetitions are minimized.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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7.4
A final detailed plan for filming that shows scenes, camera directions, and other production details
Compounds
A secret Irish republican armed group that formed in 1994 and is called a terrorist group by some governments
A group that uses violence to oppose the Northern Ireland peace process
Surface Forms
Morphology
continuity = continuous (semi-transparent) = continue + ity
The film sense extends the general idea of 'continuity' (unbroken sequence) to a specialized technical practice, so the connection exists but is domain-specific and may not be obvious to all learners.
Etymology
Continuity comes from Latin parts con- ('together') and tenere ('to hold'), the same root as continue. So in filmmaking, 'continuity' is the careful work of keeping props, costumes, and action 'held the same' from shot to shot.