Basic Elements of the simple sequence:

• The Long Shot
• The Medium Shot
• The Close-Up
• Pictorial Continuity
• The Simple Sequence
• The Reestablishing Shot
• Overlap and Matching action
• Cut-Ins and Cut-Aways
• Angles
• Panning
• Moving Shots
• Directional Continuity
• Buildup
• Story
• Editing

There are ten million film makers in America today. Most of them are amateurs, but the number who migrate to professional ranks grows constantly as television enlarges its demands for motion pictures of all kinds.

Whether he shoots for fun or profit—for a family circle or a television station—the experienced film maker knows that getting correct focus and exposure are only the first steps in using a movie camera.

You want to tell a movie story. You won’t be successful in this goal if you shoot all over the place in a series of correctly exposed but pictorially unrelated scenes. To tell a movie story, you must put together a wide variety of shots so as to achieve a smooth, meaningful, visual flow. In short, you must understand your medium as well as your camera; you must know pictorial con­tinuity.

Pictorial continuity is the indispensable framework of every soundly constructed motion picture, whether it is a Holly­wood epic, TV film, newsreel. documentary, cartoon or home movie.

Without it. any movie, no matter how elaborately or ex­pensively made, is amateurish; but with it, the raw beginner can achieve a professional touch.

It is the answer to how to shoot a movie story.

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