2. Match on match action
Cutting List as many Cross-cutting
transitions as
they can
think of that
would be
used in a TV
drama
Eye-line match Shot reverse shot

3.  We are going to watch
the first 15 minutes of
Sex Traffic (2004)
 A powerful two-part
drama about two young
Moldovan sisters
kidnapped and
trafficked through
Europe to the dark side
of London, betrayed by
pimps and police, and Watch now on 4oD
fighting for their lives.

5. Transition Seen in Sex Why the transition was used in this drama
Traffic
Cutting To cut from one scene to another.
Eye line match To show the audience what the girl was looking at
and to put focus on it so the audience
understands.
Match on match action To show the different perspectives of what's
happening e.g. front and back view of man
walking out the door.
Shot reverse shot To put focus on the person talking and the
reaction/response of the other person in the
conversation.

6.  Cutting – The simple change from one
shot/scene to another
 Cross Cutting - Editing that alternates shots
of two or more lines of action occurring in
different places, usually simultaneously. The
two actions are therefore linked, associating
the characters from both lines of action.

7.  We have studied this before for your
preliminary task.
 This is used in conversation to move from one
character to another and back again.

8.  Again we have studied this before
 This is where the camera shoots one
continuous piece of action and the edit
switches from one perspective to another.

9. A cut obeying the axis of action principle, in which the first shot shows a person off in one
direction and the second shows a nearby space containing what he or she sees. If the
person looks left, the following shot should imply that the looker is offscreen right. See
the example below -
First we see her looking... then we see what she looks at.
As her interest grows, the eyeline match (that is the connection between looker and
looked) is stressed with matching close-ups of her face and Icarus's falling into the ocean
in the painting. Again, this implies that she is looking directly at Icarus's body.

10. First we see her looking...
then we see what she looks
at.
As her interest grows, the
eyeline match (that is the
connection between looker
and looked) is stressed
with matching close-ups of
her face and the section of
the painting she is
interested in

11.  With pace you are looking for how long or
short the time between each edit is.
 If we are watching a car chase we would expect
the time to be short between each edit.
 A emotional drama may have much longer
between each of its cuts
 You can also think about rhythm. Have the
edits been timed to key moments or the beat
of the piece of music behind the scene?

12. Example from 24 Function of the editing
Editing Device interrogation scene device
Cutting /Cross Cutting Jack is shown strangling Nina in one To show different points of view after
half of the screen. On the other half an event occurs.
officers are running towards the
interrogation room to stop him.
Shot Reverse-Shot Jack and Nina are having a To show both people in the
conversation in the interrogation conversation whilst they are
room. speaking to each other.
Match on Action An example for this is when Jack Match on action shows different view
throws over the table. There is an points of something happening.
edit of him throwing it over from 2
different points of view.
Eyeline Match Jack Bauer looks into the corner of It shows what the character is looking
the wall. A closer image of the corner at.
which contains a camera of is shown.
Pace The pace between each edit is quite The pace matches atmosphere of the
long. This could because it is an TV drama whether its emotional
emotional scene. The edits are in (slow paced) or action-packed (fast-
time with the music. When there is paced). This also goes for the pace of
something climactic about to happen music.
the music becomes louder with each
edit.