Editing Techniques

Editing Techniques

Jump Cuts

Cross Cutting

Cross-cutting is a technique most often used to establish action happening at the same time, and usually in the same place. The camera will cut away from one action to another, which can suggest the simultaneity of these two actions.

A jump cut is when two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly if at all.

When editing my video, I could use jump cuts when the girl is putting on makeup in the mirror, showing her from looking natural/bare faced, to looking done up.

I could use this technique when the girl is walking down the street, showing different parts of the street.

Shot Reverse Shot

Cutaway

A cutaway shot is the interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else

Shot Reverse Shot is an editing technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character

I will use this technique when the girl is looking at the pgoto of her and her ex, as it will show the picture, then her looking at it.

I could use this technique when the main singer and her friends are having fun,for example, they could be dancing together.

Dissolve

Montage

Dissolve is a technique that is a gradual transistion from the ending scene of one shot into the beginning of the next scene.

A montage is a technique in editing which shows a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and information

I will use this transistion technique to make the transistions from each scene more smooth. For example, when the girls eyes change to another girls eyes

Slow Motion

Eyeline Match

An eyeline match begins with a character looking at something off-screen, followed by a cut of another object or person: for example, a shot showing a man looking off-screen is followed by a shot of a television

Slow motion is an effect in film-making whereby time appears to be slowed down. Slow motion can also be used for artistic effect, to create a romantic or suspenseful aura or to stress a moment in time.

I will use slow motion in the first scene, when the model is seen walking down the street. And also when she flips her hair

Graphic Match

Fade in/Fade out

Fading into a shot is when the screen appears just a blank, black screen to begin with, and then the shot begins to fade in. This usually occurs at the beginning of a scene to indicate a softer, quieter introduction. Fading out of a shot is when the shot is shown on the screen and then slowly fades out into a blank, black screen.

Graphic match is one of the many editing techniques used to continuously transition two successive shots. A graphic match makes a cut between two shots that juxtapose their graphically similar images.

I will use the fade in technique at the start and the fade out at the end