Editing

Question 1

What is continuity editing

Answer 1

• using agreed conventions to cut and join shots to tell the story smoothly and clearly
• This creates the lest challenging an most structured narrative style for the audience
• ensures a sense of reality

Question 2

What is a establishing shot

Answer 2

• a long or extreme long shot showing the spatial relationship between, or location of, characters, objects and setting

Question 3

What is cross cut / parallel editing

Answer 3

• this is cutting between actions in different locations to convey the impression that two or more events are occurring simultaneously (parallel editing) or are related (cross-cutting), to build suspense or show their relationship

Question 4

What is a cutaway

Answer 4

• A shot of something related to but outside the main action of as scene. It cuts away from the main action to a separate or secondary action, for example to show the response of another character

Question 5

What is a re-establishing shot

Answer 5

• another long shot to reinforce the setting or show how it has changed

Question 6

What is the 180 degrees rule

Answer 6

• this maintains continuity editing by ensuring that the action in a sequence of shots takes place in the half circle in front of the camera, so that characters’ positions aren’t reversed. Crossing the line creates a disorientating change in perspective

Question 7

What is a montage

Answer 7

the editing technique of assembling separate pieces of thematically related film and putting them together into a sequence

Question 8

What is a jump cut

Answer 8

• an abrupt, disorientating cut in the middle of a shot to another scene or time

Question 9

What is a fade in

Answer 9

• A shot gradually appears from a blank, white or colored screen

Question 10

What is a fade out

Answer 10

• A shot gradually disappears into a blank black, white or colored screen

Question 11

What is a wipe

Answer 11

• a line across the screen pushes one shot off the screen and replaces it with another

Question 12

What is a dissolve/cross-fade

Answer 12

• the end of a shot remains on the screen and gradually fades out after the next shot has started, often to suggest time passing