. Filmmaking: Bridging Shots Without a Pivot Shot How to bridge your film shots together Avoid noticeable disruption in your shot flow If for whatever reason you don’t have a pivot shot, or you can’t establish a new action line without noticeable disruption, you can use bridge shots that serve the same purpose as a pivot shot. This ensures you don’t make sacrifices in continuity which are very obvious to audiences around the world. Using bridge shots is very simple. Let’s assume you are filming in an office situation and are shooting a master two shot. A new person enters the room and we want to change our line of action. Instead of showing the pivot shot, the filmmaker may choose to roll a few seconds of b-roll footage (such as a close up of one of the workers playing with their pencil, somebody tapping their toe) or so on. This provides a bridge point between two different lines of action. When the camera comes back into the scene it may be set up on a new line of action instead of the old one. Using bridge shots allows for minimal disruption in the flow and continuity of a film. In the example below, you’ll see a girl speaking. Then the camera moves to her side and shows her fiddling with a piece of paper. The next shot after the bridge shot could technically be taken from a new line of action.           Continue Below... Re-Establishing Shot Bridging Shots Without a Pivot Shot Manipulating Cinematic Geography Exploring Temporal Connections Lev Kuleshov Experiment Constructing Scenes Using Q and A without Dialogue How Much to Feed Your Audience More About Q and A and Cause and Effect Cutting in the Camera Vs. Open Approach       .

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