Editing

Editing

Editing is essential to a piece of media work as it maintains continuous narrative action, continuity editing then relies on the camera angles, position and direction of each shot to shot. There are lots of different ways to edit a scene.



Cutting

Cutting is used to change the shot or viewpoint and location or scene. There is always a need and reason for a cut as it helps continue the scene, some transitions which are not so abrupt include a dissolve or a wipe.


Shot/Reverse Shot

A shot/reverse shot is where multiple shots have been edited together to show different characters in the scene together, this is often used during a conversation scene.


Eyeline Match

An eyeline match shot is where the fist shot is the characters eyeline and portrays that they are looking in one direction, the second shot shows what the character was looking at.


Graphic Match

Is two shots that are similar to one another and as they blend into one another, they result in a scene change, for example a washing machine going round dissolves into a spinning wheel of a car.


Cross Cutting/Parallel Editing

This is where it shows alternate shots of the same type action happening in a different setting, this is usually simultaneously, these actions are likely to be linking associating the two characters with one another.


Dissolve

This is a transition which changes one scene to another, one scene gradually disappears as another one appears.


Fade In/Fade Out

This involves one scene gradually getting darker as it fades out to end the scene, or to start the scene it becomes lighter to show the scene fading in.


Long Take

A shot that continues for an unusually long amount of time before it transitions for another shot.


Short Take

A shot that happends very quickly, mostly for a reaction shot.


Slow Motion

An action that takes place in a much slower rate then what it usually would happen, this is a slower rate then what it would have been originally filmed by the camera.