Ashley Johnson

EDITING STYLES
 CUT

cut editing is used to enhance

the scene to either to add more
continuity.
 Continuity editing is the process, in film and
video creation, of combining more-or-less
related shots, or different components cut
from a single shot, into a sequence to direct
the viewer's attention to a pre-existing
consistency of story across both time and
physical location.

CONTINUITY
EDITING
 Cross-cutting is an editing
technique most often used in films
to establish action occurring at
the same time, and often in the
same place. In a cross-cut, the
CROSS camera will cut away from one
action to another action, which
CUTTING can suggest the simultaneity of
these two actions but this is not
always the case.
 In film, a match cut is a cut from one
shot to another in which the
composition of the two shots are
matched by the action or subject and
GRAPHIC subject matter. For example, in a duel
a shot can go from a long shot on
MATCH CUT both contestants via a cut to a
medium closeup shot of one of the
duellists.
MONTAGE Montage is a film editing technique in

EDITING which a series of short shots are

sequenced to condense space, time, and
information. The term has been used in
various contexts. In French, the word
montage applied to cinema simply
denotes editing.
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