The two shots, first of all, may be absolutely continuous. In a certain sense, the clearest example of this sort of temporal continuity is a cut from a shot of someone speaking to a shot of someone listening,with the dialogue continuing without a break in voice-over. This is, of course, precisely what happens whenever a shot is followed by a reverse-angle shot. Although the term "straight match-cut," as is made clear later on in this chapter, refers more specifically to spatial continuity, it is also another example of absolute temporal continuity.If shot A shows someone coming up to a door, putting his hand on the doorknob, turning it, then starting to open the door,shot B, perhaps taken from the other side of the door, can pick up the action at the precise point where the previous shot left off and show the rest of the action as it would have "actually" occurred,with the person coming through the door and so on . This action could even conceivably be filmed by two cameras simultaneously,resulting in two shots that, taken together, preserve an absolute continuity of action seen from two different angles. To obtain as complete a continuity in the edited film, all we would have to do is cut the tail of shot A into the head of shot B on the editing table.
conceivably adv. 令人信服地;可相信地;想得到地
preserve vt. 保存;保护;维持;腌;禁猎 n. 保护区;禁猎地;加工成的食品 |