Connection (film)

In the art of filming, the transition between two settings is defined in film art. Often, the connection is also referred to as the English term, Continuity.

The connector must ensure that all details match from one setting to the next. If this is not the case, one speaks of a connection error. Typical connection errors are changes in the position or physical performance of the actors, changes in clothing or equipment, and jumps in the displayed time from one setting to the next. In action films, it is often observed that damage to vehicles or objects changes from setting to setting.

The problem of the connection is because scenes from feature films are not rotated in the order in which they appear in the final movie for reasons of efficiency. The sequence of the shoots is usually dictated by the availability of actors, filming locations, extras and other resources. Thus, two scenes directly following each other in the finished movie can have been rotated with great time intervals.

A typical problem is, Eg the foam on beer glasses: the foam crown decays with time and can not be reconstructed as desired - even with the highest attention. Such problems - similar to the clockwise - usually result from the fact that (especially with dialogues) a scene is rotated one after the other from two camera perspectives or that "inversions" have to be made in the case of promises.

In the case of film productions, a person (script / continuity) is usually only responsible for avoiding these errors. For this purpose, photographs of scenes are made, according to which, when rotating the subsequent connection scenes, props, Ä. to be arranged. Edit source text Edit source text

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