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This document defines and provides examples of common film editing techniques such as transitions like cross-dissolves and wipes, shots like shot/reverse shot, and general terms like continuity editing. It also explains techniques for combining multiple images like superimposition and defines a cutaway shot as the interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else. YouTube links are provided as examples for many of the terms.
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- 6. SUPERIMPOSITION- DEFINITION • Combining and manipulating multiple pictures, titles or special effects into a single, composite image. The differences are simple. Superimposition stacks images on top of one another, while matting completely replaces parts of one image with parts imported from another. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L77Z16NGaiA
- 7. CUTTING
- 9. EYE LINE MATCH • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSFD6aIhvFI
- 10. GRAPHIC MATCH • Film editing between either two different objects, two different spaces, or two different compositions in which an object in the two shots graphically match, often helping to establish a strong continuity of action and linking the two shots metaphorically. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g9d9FEDPHw
- 12. CROSS CUTTING
- 14. CUTAWAY • A cutaway shot is the interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else. The cutaway shot does not necessarily contribute any dramatic content of its own, but is used to help the editor assemble a longer sequence.
- 15. GENERAL TERMS
- 17. MONTAGE EDITING