1. Editing Glossary

2. Continuity Editing
Continuity editing requires the
director to try to make the film
reality as much like the audience’s
reality as possible. This means the
film is trying to recreate the world
us to make it easier for the
audience to understand

3. Establishing shot
A shot used near the beginning
of a scene to show the
relevance of a certain
object/person to the main
character of the story line

4. Shot reverse shot
When one character is show looking at
another character , and then the other
character is show looking “back” at the
first character. Since the characters are
showing facing in opposite direction
the viewer unconsciously assumes
they are looking at each other.

5. 180 degree Rule

6. 180 Degree Rule
This is a rule where when filming
you can only film within a 180
degree angle because if you was to
film outside the angle it will look
like the two characters would have
swapped places and that’s just
confusing. Usually used in diegetic
dialogue scenes

7. Cut
In editing, A single unbroken
strip of film

8. Straight cut
When The footage is just
ended normally

9. Fade out
The act of ending the shot
by having it slowly fade to
black

10. Dissolve
When the cut is dissolved it
makes it look like one scene
gradually transforms to the
next.

11. Wipe cut
When the shot is edited to look
like it is being wiped off the
screen in the transition towards
the next scene

12. Jump cut
A jump cut is an abrupt cut
between two shoots that
calls attention to itself
because it does not match
the shots.