Shot Consistency

Colour correction is a very good tool in the latter stages of film production to give the scene a consistent feel from shot to shot - especially when shots are taken from several different locations and made to look one of the same.

Of course, well before this, lighting is very important to be executed in exact ways location to location.

What the character wears is important as well as the location obviously appearing to be similar. If you design the set, then you can put similar or exactly the same props into the scenes.

If you design the shots for cutting in the storyboard, this subtracts any odd jump cuts that may occur in the edit.

Also, if the movements of the characters or elements join shot to shot.

Many things allow the cuts and story to flow better within a scene, and many more than these examples.

But, there is one other situation I'd like to point out: You shoot on several locations which are pretty similar, for example an alleyway, but they aren't totally similar.

Now, we did this, and we did frame steps in both alleyways to aid the cut. And, to be honest it isn't a big problem, but there is a very good way to synchronise them up using compositing.

Example of Alleyway #1

I have chosen to test cutting out one particular element from one close up shot, or mid shot, and compositing that into the wide from the other alleyway location.

Example of Alleyway #2

More on this later...