Editing Techniques

Editing Techniques

The purpose of editing:

1. Determinate the speed at which events move along
2. Give or Withhold information
3. Determine your feeling for events and characters
4. The illusion of unity

Cutting: the work of selecting and joining together shots to create a finished film

Principals cutting techniques

1. Standard cut
2. Jump cut
3. Montage
4. Cross dissolve
5. Wipe
6. J or L cut
7. Cutting on Action
8. Match cut
9. Smash cut
10. Invisible cut

Shot/Reverse shot: is a staple of editing in dialogue sequences. Conventionally, it utilizes the 180 degree rule, the eye line match, and rule of change among others.

Crosscuting: cutting back and forth quickly between two or more lines of action, indicating they are happening simultaneously

Fade in/Fade out: a filmmaking and broadcasting technique whereby an image is made to disappear gradually.

Superimposition: when you put especially a picture, words, etc. on top of something else, especially another picture, words, etc.., so that what is in the lower position can still be seen, heard, etc.

Slow motion: when film or television pictures are shown in slow motion, they are shown much more slowly than normal.

Eyeline match: a cut  obeying the axis of action principle, in which the fist shot shows a person off in one direction and the second shows a nearby space containing what he or she sees. If the person looks left, the following shot should imply that the looker is offscreen right.