Classic Continuity Editing
The second section of this blog post (labeled “DB”) from Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell’s “Observations on film art and Film Art” blog is a great summary of the classic Hollywood continuity editing, starting off with a brief discussion of the tableau technique. The tableau reminds me of how many early comic strips were drawn composed. You see this a lot in Gasoline Alley, where we have characters in front of a set background, like a theater stage, but with a fixed, framed viewpoint, and the occasional close-up panel.
I wonder how many of the continuity editing techniques are used in comics. The technique in film seems to be used for orientating the viewer to space, and perhaps with the persistence of images on the page there is less need for this (i.e. the viewer can look back at images and find the clues necessary to orientate). On the other hand, many of these same techniques (eyeline matches, action matches) can be used for the purposes of page flow to move the reader through the page in a certain way.
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