For those who missed the meeting but want to do the challenge

Creative Challenge

Continuity

 the effect of unity throughout a creative work

February 20, 2012

Assignment:              Create Continuity

                        Creations will be shared and discussed at MVCA Meeting on March 19, 2012 at 7 pm.

Discussion:    Define Continuity

1 a: uninterrupted connection, succession, or union b: uninterrupted duration or continuation especially without essential change

2 : something that has, exhibits, or provides continuity: as a: a script or scenario in the performing arts b: transitional spoken or musical matter especially for a radio or television program c: the story and dialogue of a comic strip

3 : the property of being mathematically continuous

Examples of CONTINUITY

1. The art historian is studying the continuities between the painter's works and those of her followers.
2. There's a problem with the movie's continuity.
3. That pattern is a good example of continuity.

First Known Use of CONTINUITY was in the 15th century

Synonyms: abidance, ceaselessness, continuance, continuation, contentiousness, durability, duration, endurance, persistence, subsistence

Visual (including crafts):      

            Keep the eye flowing throughout the work in an interesting way

            Use of repetition of color, size and/or shape                         

            Use of color – Analogous Colors ( Red and Orange, Blue and Green)   and Tertiary Colors combinations (Red, Orange and Yellow)

Music:            

            Use of Consistency (sometimes lack of contrast)

            Use of rhythm – Maintained

            Use of theme and lyrics

Literature/poetry:     

Use in fiction, continuity (also called time-scheme) is consistency of the characteristics of persons, plot, objects, places and events seen by the reader or viewer over some period of time

            Use of rhythm, rhyme and repetition (Dr. Seuss used this device to make sense of the abstract)

Continuity Editing – editing for tense, time, and consistency

Dance/movement:

            Use of rhythm – consistent (always fast or always slow)

            Use of gesture – consistent (always grand or always tiny)

            Position on stage

Acting:

            Use of facial expression

            Use of gesture – consistency

            Use of verbal communication