Brown’s chapter on cinematic continuity provides a thorough outline of the cinematography rules one must consider when shooting footage. He says that “filming is ultimately shooting for editorial”, and therefore this process must be done systematically and as accurately as possible to get “great shots” for the edit. The main idea is that the cinematography and edit must not confuse the audience as that will distract or even annoy them, as a result it is best to shoot in a continuous fashion and ensure that action is overlapped. In the subsection “Cuttability”, he expands on the 180 degree rule by introducing the 20/30 degree rule, in which the camera angle must have changed 20 or 30 degrees otherwise it may have a jump cut effect, though that could also be used creatively.

This chapter by Brown discussed how the production process must be executed with the editing in mind which I found to be helping in regards to thinking about the relationship between production and post production. He focusses mainly on continuity shooting and editing so more research could be done on the exceptions to these rules.