Film Editing Techniques Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering film editing cuts, continuity transitions, and camera match techniques from the lecture notes.

Jump cut

Instant change from one scene to another to show a backwards or forward jump in time

The cut

Series of cuts within the same sequence or scene

J cut

Cut occurs when the audio transition occurs before the video transition

L cut

An L cut is the exact opposite of a J cut

Cut on action

For continuity in between scenes for scene synergy

Cut on Dialogue

Between two characters speaking in a scene and in some instances a cut from dialogue shot

Beat on cut

Edit to the beat of music

Continuity editing

Time flows uninterrupted without any break in time or space from shot to shot

Cross cutting

Occurs when 2 scenes are shot in sequence but presented by going back n forth as a viewer you are watching 2 scenes in 2 different locations at the same time

Eye Line / Match

The direction and angle of vision of a character relative to the camera, where a character looks at something off camera and the camera cuts to what they are looking at