Important Concepts of Editing

 In class today, we learned about editing techniques.

Film editing is the art of assembling a film the finalize the project. The creative choices of an editor are usually a combination of what they think is best for the film and what the director and producers want for the finished project.

Types of Film Editing:

Action match: It is a shot that cuts to another continuing a piece of action or movement between the shots.

Continuity Editing: It is an editing style that aims to present the text in a order to emphasize the real-time movement of the narrative and to create a sense of realism. 

Crosscutting: It is an editing technique that involves show in two or more separate actions by cutting back to them one at a time.

Cutaway: It is an abrupt cut from one thing to another. it is meant to cut away from one thing to bring attention to another.

Dissolve: It can be described as having the visuals of one scene overlapping with the visuals of the incoming one.

Eyeline Match: It is a type of editing that maintains the eyeline or level when cutting from a character to what character sees.

Graphic match: It cut links two different scenes together through the use of aesthetically similar elements like shapes, colors, or patterns. 

Jump cut: It is a cut that moves to a very similar part of the same scene but missing a piece of action out. This editing technique was mainly created to simply cut time off from a movie by eliminating needless seconds in a scene.

Linear Narrative: It is a sequential narrative with a beginning, a middle and an end-in that order. Linear narratives provide a straightforward, sequential representation or events leading to a single resolution.

Montage: It is a series of shots edited together to show time passing and something happening in that time.

Parallel Action: It is the narrative technique of showing two or more scenes happening at same time by cutting between them.

Shot/Reverse shot: It is cutting between two people having conversation which can help to contrast them and make them see different.

Split Screen: It is an editing technique which involves the cinema screen being split into two or more parts to allow the showing of events that are taking place at the same time.

Superimpose: It is the appearance of symbol or images on tops of an image so that both are visible at once, increasing the amount of information the view has in on shot.

Visual effects: It is a term used to describe imagery created, manipulated or enhanced for any film, or other moving media that doesn't take place during live-action shooting. 

Intercutting: In film or video, it is an edited sequence that snaps back and forth between two or more camera shots that show a different course of action.