Editing Techniques

Editing Techniques

Editing is when shots are cut together for a more linear flow, this creates continuity between scenes.

Film Editing

Straight

This is the most common way of moving from one shot to the next. A straight cut is a transition where one shot is instantly followed by another.

Jump Cut

An abrupt and jolting cut from one moment in a scene to the next, it is often used to indicate a shift in time or a processes.

Frequency/Speed

Frequency and speed are used to create different affects. Fast frequency can create tension and confusion and is often used in action scenes. Whereas slow frequency can create peace and calmness and is often used in peaceful scenes.

Match on Action

When an action is started in one shot and ends in the next, a visual 'bridge' is created which acts to disguise the cut from one to another.

Parallel Editing

A technique most often used to establish when action is happening in two separate locations.

Shot Reverse Shot

A film technique were one character is shown looking at another (often off-screen) and then the other charterer is showing looking back at the first character.

Eye-line Match

When a charterer is looking off screen and the next shot shows us what the charterer is looking at.

Graphic Match

A cut from one object to another object which is similarly shaped.

Cutaway

The interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else.

Transistions

A visual effect used to indicate a change in place or time.

Fade - A gradual brightening as a shot opens or a gradual darkening as a shot closes.

Dissolve- When the end of one shot overlaps the start of the next one to create a gradual scene transition

Montage

A technique in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time and information.

Sound Editing

Diegtic - sounds that the characters within a movie can hear themselves.

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Non-Diegtic - sounds that the characters within a movie can not hear themselves.