Accident Sequence: Continuity Research

To practice continuity techniques we made a short accident sequence, although we were not allowed to edit it in any way.
Our accident sequence was made up of 8 shots. These were:
LS of boy looking in mirror
Eyeline LS shot of boy looking where figure was
Reverse MCU of boy looking confused/scared, zoom out to Long Shot of boy walking
Handheld camera, tracking MS of boy running through door
Match On Action CU shot of pressing lift button
OTS MS of killer in lift door, frame within a frame
LS of boy walking out of lift and killer attacking
Zoom out, titlting shot of dead boy on floor CU to LS

To achieve continuity we made sure that the shots all followed on from each other well and made chronological sense. For example when the boy turned to look at where the killer had been, the shot was where he had turned to look. One example of this that we didn't do as well was the match on action shot where his hand goes to press the button as we didn't cut the shot soon enough. This meant the character was still for too long before he started pressing the button and the narrative didn't make sense.
We made the narrative make sense over time and space as well. For example the shots all happened in a sensible and easily comprehensible timespan and the shots were varied and made sense.
LS,LS,MCU,MS,CU,MS,LS,CU-LS contain no massive jumps. However the last two shots went from LS to CU which was slightly jolting and if we had more time, shots (or a stunt double) we might have shown the body falling before cutting to a close up of the dead man's face.

My specific role during the shoot was act as the boy and also discuss the shots with the rest of the group as we were all directing the shots. I liked the idea of a handheld shot and we used this in shot 5, as well as the idea of the match on action shot which we used for shot 6.

The sequence mostly makes sense with a few exceptions such as the jolting LS to CU and the match on action fail. Apart from that it's pretty obvious what's actually happening and the narrative makes sense.

Improvements would be the match on action shot and the jolting long shot to close up, as well as trying to actually fit it into six shots next time.

This has helped me to understand how to achieve continuity and what it is.