This document discusses various techniques for continuity editing in film. It defines continuity editing as editing that is designed to go unnoticed by the audience. It describes several specific techniques: shot-reverse-shot, which cuts between two characters in a scene; eye-line match, which cuts from a character's face to what they are looking at; match-on-action, which cuts between multiple shots and angles of the same scene; and parallel editing, which cuts between two separate locations happening at the same time. The document provides examples of these techniques and quizzes students on identifying them. It also introduces other editing techniques like cut-ins, cutaways, L-cuts, J-cuts, and graphic matches. The

1. Editing

3. Review
• How many edits do you think were in this one
minute sequence?
• Write your number on your board
• Hold up your board!
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4. Continuity Editing
• When the first shot is followed by what we
naturally expect to see
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5. Click your fingers every time you
see an edit

6. Continuity Editing
• The reason you don’t know how many edits
there were is because they are designed not
to be noticed
• This is why it is called CONTINUITY EDITING
because it seems to be invisible to the
audience
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7. Continuity Editing
• How many edits were there?
• What happened to the pace of editing?
• How does this impact the audience?
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8. Today’s Objectives
• To know and understand what continuity
editing is
• To create a new scene using a range of
editing techniques to make meaning
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9. Continuity Editing
• There are FIVE main types of continuity
editing to know for this unit.
• We must think about what the editing tells us
about the characters and the action.
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10. Shot-reverse-shot
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11. Eye-line match
• We start with a close-up shot of the character
• Then CUT to what they are looking at
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12. Match-on-action
• The scene is seen from lots of different shots
and angles
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13. Parallel Editing
• This is when we cut between two locations to
see the action happening at the same time
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14. 180 degree line rule
• All the filming happens on one side of the line
of action
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15. Hinge Point 1
Q: When the scene is viewed continuously from
a range of different camera angles.
A: Shot-reverse-shot
B: Parallel editing
C: Match on action

16. Hinge Point 2
Q: This type of edit can be used to draw
attention and imply the importance of
something a character is looking at.
A: Parallel editing
B: Eye-line match
C: Shot-reverse-shot

17. Cut-in
• We start with the main frame or shot
• Then cut to a close up shot of something
within the scene
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18. Cutaway
• We start with a the main frame or shot
• The cut to something else in the scene
• It can sometimes also be an eye-line match
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19. L-Cut
• We start with a shot (A) then cut to another
shot (B), however the sound from the first
shot (A) continues to be heard.
• You can hear audio from the previous shot
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20. J-Cut
• Is the opposite of a L-Cut
• We hear the audio before we see the video
• So you hear the audio before cutting to the
shot
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21. Graphic Match
• Matching two environments together
• matching visual elements e.g. shape, size,
colour
• can be a visual metaphor
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22. Hinge Point 3
Q: When we can hear audio from the next shot
before cutting to the visual
A: Parallel editing
B: L Cut
C: J Cut

23. Hinge Point 4
Q: A cut that creates a visual metaphor between
the objects of the two shots
A: L Cut
B: Graphic match
C: Eye-line match

24. PRACTICAL 1: In-Camera Editing
• Your task is to create a one minute
short using in-camera editing
techniques to create continuity
• Include all the continuity techniques
learned today
• Include a range of shots where
possible
• Use the shooting script to plan your
shots