Question | Answer |
What is editing? | Moving from 1 shot to the next |
What is a fade out? | Fading from the a light shot to a darker screen |
What is a fade in? | A dark screen that gradually brightens as a shot appears. |
What is a dissolve? | One image dissolves into the next |
What is a wipe? | Moving between two shots with a line across the screen removing one shot and replacing with the next. |
What is a cut? | Moving from one shot to the other- nothing fancy |
What is a graphic match? | Two shots joined together with same elements in both |
What are rhythmic relations? | Duration of shots joined together |
What is the Kuleshov Effect? | Audience must infer space, no establishing shot |
What is order? | Presentation of events |
What is a flashback? | A look to the past before the actions on screen then returning to the present |
What is a flash-forward? | Moving to a point in the future then returning to the present |
What is elliptical editing? | Shot transitions that omit parts of an event, causing an ellipsis in plot duration. |
What is punctuation? | A transition showing that time is being cut out |
What are empty frames? | The empty space stays on screen after the character leaves |
What is a cutaway? | Cutting from one action to the next and back again |
What is overlapping editing? | Repeating an action on screen |
What is continuity editing? | A system of cutting to maintain continuous and clear narrative action. |
What is the 180 system? | A system which promotes spatial continuity
-Position of frame remains consistant, eye levels stay the same |
What is an establishing shot | Distant framing, establishes space between characters before closer shots |
What is shot/reverse shot? | Two or more shots edited together that alternate characters, typically in a conversation setting |
What is eye line match? | The eye lines of the characters stay consistent even when the camera moves. |
What is match on action? | A continuity cut that splices two different views of the same action together at the same moment in the movement, making it seem to continue uninterrupted |
What is a reestablishing shot? | A return to the view of the entire space after a series of breakdown shots that followed the establishing shot. |
What is a montage sequence? | Many different sequences shown at the same time, showing a series of events |
What is discontinuity editing? | The use of any technique considered unacceptable by continuity editing principles |
What is a jump cut? | An interruption of a single shot |
What is a nondiegetic insert? | Objects or sounds that are outside of the narrative |