Continuity Clip Analysis

I will be analysing a scene from The Bourne Supremacy to see how well they follow the continuity technique: Firstly, they have used a variety of shots during this scene, as it is a chase scene the shots need to be compact so that we can follow both the chasers (the police men) and the person being chase.


At the beginning we have a pan from over his shoulder to his reflection and straight away we see them using match on action shot; where we hear the phone ring and we see his head turn and straight away the camera pans to the phone. Another shot they use quite often during the chase which helps the audience to follow, is cross-cutting. Here we are able to see two different views (the person being chased and the chasers). Also their is a lot of chasers so it cuts to different views of different chasers to get a feel as if we are chasing him, as the camera is not steady but a bit shaky and pans fast. Once again we get a lot of match on action with things he looks at; example when he looks at the door with shadows passing by, the time table of the train. We get a lot of establishment shots of different areas, to see were Jason is running to and where the chasers are coming from. We get him running into or past the shot so that we get enough information of where he is and where he is going. The use of shot order is done so well that although this is a complicated scene to follow it follows chronologically in order to take the audience smoothly through the narrative. 


In this scene I have noticed they have used a lot of shots. Which would confuse the audience but in this case they have used it so that we see the panic and rush from Jason and the chasers.

This is one of our inspirations to our final opening sequence.