Revision: Editing

Now its time to revise some editing techniques.

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

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.

Crosscutting: cutting back and forth quickly between two or more lines of action, indecating they are happening simultaneously.

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

Over-The-Shoulder-shot: used when shooting conversation between two people, speaker´s full face is shown while camera is aimed over the shoulder of the listener.

Cutaway: is the interruption of a continuosuly filmed action by inserting a view of something else. It is usually, although not always, followed by a cut back to the first shot, when the cutaway avoids a jump cut.

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.