editing

• Straight cut

  sudden change of shot from one viewpoint or location to another - allows timing of actions up to audience interpretation
• Reaction Shot

  A shot where a participant reacts to events/ action, often used to guide the audiences reaction to a scene
• Fade

  A transition to or from a blank screen - usually means the end of something or a passing of time
• Wipe

  An optical effect in which one shot wipes another of the screen for dramatic effect
• Shot - reverse -shot

  a cut that has a reason- to show changes of speaker
• Cross cutting

  Used to establish action occurring at the same time in different places- suggests simultaneity of actions by cutting between them
• Dissolves


  A slow transition as one image merges into another - can show the passing of time
• Jump cut

  An abrupt switch from one shot to another, used to make a dramatic point - not often used in film, more in music videos
• Motivated cut

  a reason for a cut- to show the audience something. the camera work and editing are determines by the action eg showing a character looking at something then show what they are looking at
• Match on action

  A cut that connects two different views of the same action at the same moment in the movement - seems like the movement continues uninterrupted
• Graphic Match

  an edit in which a dominant shape or line in one shot provides a visual transition to a similar shape or line in the next shot
• Montage sequence


  Series of short shots sequenced to condense space, time and information
• Continuity edit

  Makes the action seems as fluid as possible so the audience isn't aware of the editing process
• Superimposition

  Two or more images are placed over each other in the same frame.
• Split screen

  division of the screen to dhow 2 or more lines of action simultaneously
• Cutaway

  'bridging' shot between 2 shots of the same subject or time often used to soften jumps in time/space, or used in flashbacks
• Accelerated editing

  Process of shortening the video length or duration snf increasing the speed in order transmit the idea of excitement and rhythm
• Dialogue editing

  post sound process that focuses on cleaning up all the production sound problems and smoothing out an actors voice performance
• Parallell editing

  used to jump between 2 scenes happening at the same time to increase the feeling of suspense and increase the pacing of the scene
• Invisible editing

  cuts 2 scenes with similar fames together to hide the transition from viewers for a smooth unnoticeable cut
• Long take

  A single shot with a longer duration than most other shots- several minutes, may contain camera movements on a dolly
• Overcranking

  slow motion
• Unercranking

  speeding up
• linear narrative

  a narrative that goes in chronological order.
• Freeze frame

  When the movement of the film image appears to stop so that it appears like a photographic still.
• Bullet time

  Uses multiple cameras to display the passage of time as extremely slow or completely frozen
• Flash bulb

  a white light flash that can increase action or pass time