Research: Intro to Editing

Recently I have learned about various editing techniques that I will be able to use in my future opening film sequence.

Terminology

Cutting: When one shot instantly replaces another.

Shot/Reverse Shot: Multiple shots edited together to alternate characters (used for dialogue).

Eyeline Match: Shot of character looking at something cuts to shot of what they see.

Graphic Match: Two shots are joined to give off a certain feeling using similar elements.

Action Match: a cut that connects two different views of the same action at the same moment in the movement.

Jump Cut: abrupt transition from one scene to another.

Cross Cutting/Parallel Editing: Alternating two/more scenes that happen simultaneously in different locations.

Dissolve: overlapping; one shot is gradually replaced by the next

Fade-In/Fade Out: when a solid color gradually gives way/ is replaced to/by a picture.

Wipe: Shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another.

Iris: a black circle closes/opens to the end/beginning of a scene.

Superimposition: The exposure of more than one image on the same film strip.

Long Take: Shot that continues for an unusually long time before the next transition.

Ellipsis: the shortening of sections of the narrative story of a film to create suspense/mystery.

Expansion of time: making the duration of a video sequence longer than real time.

Montage: Shots are put together in a fast-pace that gives a lot of info in a short period of time.

Kuleshov Effect: Kuleshov discovered that depending on how shots are assembled the audience will attach a specific meaning to it.

Cutaway: Interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else.

Insert: shot of part of a sense as filmed from a different angle and/or focal length from master shot.

Short Take: A small portion of recording.

Slow Motion: Showing a film slower than it actually was recorded.