Editing

Different Aspects of Editing

    Editing and post-production are essential aspects of videography that should not be overlooked. They play a crucial role in enhancing visual appeal, creating a compelling narrative, engaging the audience, ensuring brand consistency, and correcting errors.

Reverse Angle Shot:

• A reverse angle shot is a shot taken roughly 180 degrees opposite of the shot prior. Reverse angle shots are most commonly seen in dialogue scenes and are essential for shot-reverse shot sequences. Reverse angle shots give audiences different perspectives of the same scene. 
  

Eyeline Match:

• Eyeline Matching is a technique where two shots are edited together to make it appear that one character is looking at another character, even though two takes may have been recorded at different times. Matching eyelines create continuity of space and time for the audience.
  

Graphic Match:

• Also known as visual match cuts, these transitions connect two different scenes with similar visual styles, through colors, shapes, or patterns.
  

Action Match:

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  A match on action cut (also referred to as cutting on action) is a type of film transition that cuts from one shot to a closer shot in order to emphasize an action. Match on action cuts are used by filmmakers to generate seamless flow in editing. Match on action cuts are also an important part of continuity editing.
  

Jump Cut:

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  A jump cut in filmmaking is an edit to a single, sequential shot that makes the action appear to leap forward in time, it must break a continuous shot into two parts. This causes the subject in the video to abruptly “jump” to a different position.

Crosscutting:

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  Cross cutting in film is an editing technique that cuts separate actions together to illustrate moments that take place simultaneously within the narrative structure. The “rules” of cross cutting as far as their relation to scale and time are not overly strict, but the majority of cross cuts are used to show large scale events that occur across multiple locations.

Parallel Editing:

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  Parallel editing is a specific cross cutting technique that creates a narrative parallel that the viewer may compare and contrast. For example, if one character is scrubbing toilets while the other is riding a jet ski across a scenic lake, the visuals will create an undeniably powerful narrative point of view through the use of editing both scenes next to and in between each other.

Cutaway:

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  The cutaway shot is a backbone in filmmaking and editing techniques that you'll see in nearly every film and TV show. A cutaway shot is a supplementary shot that “cuts away” from the main action to indicate something else in the space, such as an object or location.

Insert:

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  Insert editing is a way to add clips to a video project without overwriting any other files. It pushes one clip further into the timeline to make room for the new clip.