Intensified Continuity In Quantum Of Solace By James Bond
Continuity in film is understood to be the flow of logical events conveyed via the editing, which can be further broken down into temporal and spatial continuity. If done properly an audience could easily be led to believe that they were watching a scene that was shot continuously but from different views/angles, in other words, the audience should not become aware of the cutting at all. Matching action is one of the key formal devices when discussing continuity, it is the physical movement that flows from one shot to the next. When an audience sees a character park their car and open the door to get out the following shot should be of an already parked car with the door opened. If the succeeding shot strays from this image then the illusion
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Eventually the over-the-shoulder and reverse-angle shots came into practice and with the usage of wide-angle lenses a close-up on a character's face could include more of the background in the negative space. Having more of the background in view during these single-shots reduced the need for re-establishing shots as viewers would be able to judge the character's location within the space. (Bordwell, “Intensified Continuity” …show more content…
The first half of the film has a constant balance between a high action scene and a “relax” dialogue scene. A main problem with an audience watching a film like this is, “having grown up with “chaos cinema,” they enjoy it and aren't bothered by the failing of which Stork accuses it” (Shaviro, “Post-Continuity). We have become desensitized by the the constant jump-cuts, poor matching-action, and screen direction, all we want is to see the spectacle that action movies provide. The “only” people who seems to be bothered by the discontinuity according to Shaviro are the film critics who are nitpicky about the details only because they analyze films for a living (Shaviro, “Post-Continuity). After getting halfway through the film, I decided to just ignore all of the imperfections with the continuity and thoroughly found myself enjoying the film
Eventually the over-the-shoulder and reverse-angle shots came into practice and with the usage of wide-angle lenses a close-up on a character's face could include more of the background in the negative space. Having more of the background in view during these single-shots reduced the need for re-establishing shots as viewers would be able to judge the character's location within the space. (Bordwell, “Intensified Continuity” …show more content…
The first half of the film has a constant balance between a high action scene and a “relax” dialogue scene. A main problem with an audience watching a film like this is, “having grown up with “chaos cinema,” they enjoy it and aren't bothered by the failing of which Stork accuses it” (Shaviro, “Post-Continuity). We have become desensitized by the the constant jump-cuts, poor matching-action, and screen direction, all we want is to see the spectacle that action movies provide. The “only” people who seems to be bothered by the discontinuity according to Shaviro are the film critics who are nitpicky about the details only because they analyze films for a living (Shaviro, “Post-Continuity). After getting halfway through the film, I decided to just ignore all of the imperfections with the continuity and thoroughly found myself enjoying the film