2. Match on Action
• An editing technique for continuity editing in which one
shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject
in the first shot.
Jump Cut
• An elliptical cut that appears to be an interruption of a
single shot. It occurs within a scene rather than between
scenes, to condense the shot.
Shot-Reverse Shot
• A continuity editing technique used in conversations or
simply characters looking at each other or objects.
3. Continuity
• When the audience should not notice when the cuts
have been made. A sequence of shots that appear
together and link with each other.
180° Rule
• States that two characters in a scene should maintain
the same left/right relationship to one another.
Match Cut
• A cut in film editing between either two different
objects, two different spaces, or two different
compositions in which an object in the two shots
graphically match.
Cross cutting
• Alternates shots of two or more lines of action
occurring in different places, usually simultaneous.
4. Line Cut
• Tape of the switches from one camera angle to the other that the
multiple cam director called out as the show was shot.
Split Edit
• A video editing term for overlap. In a split edit the audio and video
edit do not start at the same time; either video or audio is delayed.
Elliptical editing
• Shot transitions that omit parts of an event, causing ellipsis in plot
and story duration.
Invisible Editing
• Editing that is so smooth that viewers become engrossed in the
movie and don’t notice the individual cuts.
