Editing Terminology Flashcards
What is film editing?
The general name for the art of when to start and stop each shot, and how exactly to transition between them
What is a montage?
A wider spirit or ideology that may dictate how a film tends to arrange or juxtapose its images
What is a scene?
It comprises a series of shots that are tightly joined by narrative or aesthetic logic, rather like a paragraph of written text
What is a sequence?
It usually comprises a series of scenes that together form a larger movement or chapter within the narrative or aesthetic logic of a film
What are sequence shots?
When the movie presents an entire scene or sequence of events without any edits
What are edits?
By which scenes are joined, introduced, or concluded
What is a cut?
Is the most common editing device in a film, and involves a clean, instantaneous
break between two images, with neither an overlap nor a gap between them
What is a match-cut?
It joins two images that are compositionally similar, or which centralize similar objects, or which seem to obey a similar movement
What is a jump-cut?
It conveys velocity, excitement, or stress by cutting within a continuous action
What is a flash-cut?
It interjects a single image so quickly within an otherwise continuous action that we barely register the new image before we cut back to the initial one
What is a fade-out?
It gradually erases an image until all that remains is a solid field of color, usually black (i.e., a “fade to black”)
What is a fade-in?
When the image gradually emerges from a blank field
What is a dissolve?
When one image fades out, the other already fades in. The screen is never “empty,” and the joined images are superimposed, quickly or slowly, in a way that is usually worth pondering
What is a wipe?
When one image intrudes upon another, discernible along a clear line, or forming a clear shape
What is a horizontal wipe?
Where a new image rolls in from the
the right or left edge of the frame
