Advanced Editing Review

When one scene abruptly cuts to another for aesthetic, narrative, or emotional purpose

• Match cut

• Smash cut

• Invisible cut

• Jump cut

Allows a circle of black to fade into or out of your shot

• Wipe

• Dip to black

• Iris transition

• Vignette

What is another name for an invisible cut?

• In camera transition

• Smash cut

• Match cut

• Iris transition

What does a dissolve often symbolize?

• The end of the movie

• A character facing a problem

• It is changing from day to night

• The beginning of a new scene

Transition from one shot straight to another

• Cutaway shot

• Cut

• Camera shot

• Cross cutting

When the editor intercuts back and forth between locations

• Cross cutting

• Cut away shot

• Jump cut

• Inset shot

Brief shot that links 2 pieces of video. Cutting to an insert shot of something and then back

• Cross cutting

• Cutting on action

• Cutaway shot

• Cut

A cut from one shot to another where the 2 shots are matched by the action or subject and subject matter

• Match cut

• Smash cut

• Invisible cut

• Flash cut

Used to give the impression of a single take, but the cuts are actually hidden in the blackness or motion blur

• Match cut

• Jump cut

• Iris transition

• Invisible cut

When is a smash cut normally used?

• A crucial moment in a scene where a cut would not be expected

• To hide the cut in the motion blur

• To create quick fast paced cuts

• When an actor is in motion