Different Editing Techniques in Media

Match on Action

• An editing technique for continuity editing in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject in the first shot.

Jump Cut

• An elliptical cut that appears to be an interruption of a single shot. It occurs within a scene rather than between scenes, to condense the shot.

Shot-Reverse Shot

• A continuity editing technique used in conversations or simply characters looking at each other or objects.

Continuity

• When the audience should not notice when the cuts have been made. A sequence of shots that appear together and link with each other.

180° Rule

• States that two characters in a scene should maintain the same left/right relationship to one another.

Match Cut

• A cut in film editing between either two different objects, two different spaces, or two different compositions in which an object in the two shots graphically match.

Cross cutting

• Alternates shots of two or more lines of action occurring in different places, usually simultaneous.

Line Cut

• Tape of the switches from one camera angle to the other that the multiple cam director called out as the show was shot.

Split Edit

• A video editing term for overlap. In a split edit the audio and video edit do not start at the same time; either video or audio is delayed.

Elliptical editing

• Shot transitions that omit parts of an event, causing ellipsis in plot and story duration.

Invisible Editing

• Editing that is so smooth that viewers become engrossed in the movie and don’t notice the individual cuts.