Continuity editing

This is an establishing shot I took, an establishing shot sets up, or establishes the setting for a scene by showing the relationship between its important objects and settings. Its normally a long or an extremely long shot at the beginning of a scene.

 This is a shot reverse shot is when one character is shown looking at another character, and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.

This photograph establishes the 180 degree rule where by the camera is always situated on one side of two characters so the audience can establish the position of each character. The diagram bellow shows that if the camera were to swap sides then the characters positions would no longer make sense as the character on the left would suddenly jump to being on the right of the screen.

These two shots show eye line match. This is really important as it establishes who each person is looking at and orientates the viewer.