Tripod and Continuity Research

A tripod has extendable legs which you can adjust to your desired height. They have clips which secure it at the height you want. You can screw the pan handle to looser or tighter for how easy you want to move it for a panning shot. The camera plate is where you attach the camera, this is the most important part of the tripod. This holds the camera in place to allow filming.

The purpose of continuity editing is to smooth over a clip. Going from one shot to another and making it fit for example in a conversation you may use a two shot of two characters talking, and then the shot may change to an over the shoulder shot as the characters are still talking. This continues the conversation and shows different angles of them talking. This helps the clip flow well. Films that are not edited well or that do not include the right shots at the right time will not be successful as it will not flow freely and fit together, characters will be positioned differently in different shots and can create confusion to the audience.

The 180 degree rule allows the audience to see where the positioning of characters and objects are without becoming confused. This creates spatial awareness between characters on screen. 

"In film making, the 180-degree rule is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene. An imaginary line called the axis connects the characters, and by keeping the camera on one side of this axis for every shot in the scene, the first character is always frame right of the second character, who is then always frame left of the first. The camera passing over the axis is called jumping the line orcrossing the line."
- (sourced from Wikipedia)

Examples of this are:

Shots that can be used:

• Establishing shot
• Long shot
• Medium Close up
• Close up
• Extreme close up
• High angle shot
• Low angle shot