Editing Terms:
Editing has a number of key terms which an editor should be well educated on. These terms could be known to mean transitions or simply the continuity.
Cutting:
Cutting is when one shot suddenly changes to another shot. Cuts are made very regularly, for example television shows consist of cuts which occur approximately every seven to eight seconds. Cuts aren't always left as a sudden change from one shot to another, sometimes these cuts are transitioned as a fade, wipe, or a dissolve. There is always a reason for cutting a shot, this could include:
To change the scene and setting
To compress the time
To vary the point of view
To build or create an image or an idea.
To change the scene and setting
To compress the time
To vary the point of view
To build or create an image or an idea.
Shot / Reverse Shot:
A shot and reverse shot is where several shots are edited together and alternate characters. This is very typically used in a conversation situation.
Eye line Match:
An eye line match consists of two shots. The first shows the character look off in one direction. The following shot shows what the character is looking at.
Graphic Match:
A good example of this would be a washing machine spinning around and then dissolving into a car wheel. Or even, in Hitchcock's "Psycho", in the famous shower scene, when the camera focuses on the water spiralling down the plug hole and the shot dissolves into the woman's eye.
Action Match:
An action match is when two different views are shot of the same action, and are edited together so that the action appears to continue uninterrupted.
Jump Cut:
A jump cut is when a single shot has an interruption. The interruption is either the background changes instantly while the figure in the shot remains the same, or that the figure changes instantly while the background remains the same.
Parallel Editing:
This is an editing technique where two or more shots, set in different places, alternate, these are usually simultaneous, and the actions are linked in some way.
Dissolve:
Dissolving is a transition used in between two shots so that the shots don't suddenly change. Dissolve is the transition in which one shot fades out while another shot fades in. meaning at one moment in this transition the shots are blended together.
Fade in / Fade out:
Fading into a shot is when the screen appears just a blank, black screen to begin with, and then the shot begins to fade in. This usually occurs at the beginning of a scene to indicate a softer, quieter introduction.
Fading out of a shot is when the shot is shown on the screen and then slowly fades out into a blank, black screen.
Fading out of a shot is when the shot is shown on the screen and then slowly fades out into a blank, black screen.
Super-impostion:
This is where two shots are blended into one, and unlike dissolve, this is not a transition between two different shots.
Long Take:
A shot that takes an usually long length of time before cutting to the next scene.
Short Take:
A shot that is a very quick shot that takes a very short length of time before cutting to the next scene.
Slow Motion:
When the action on the screen has been edited to move at a slower rate than the original action did.
This can be used to be the following:
Make a faster action more visible to the audience
To emphasise a moment or a reaction
To create an unusual and strange feeling about a familiar, ordinary action
to emphasise violence.
This can be used to be the following:
Make a faster action more visible to the audience
To emphasise a moment or a reaction
To create an unusual and strange feeling about a familiar, ordinary action
to emphasise violence.