Unit 16.1 (Glossary Terms)

Glossary Terms	Meanings
What is editing	When you have different footages and you cut, paste and add effects so you can make a final footage and make it into a story.
What is jump cut	It’s not a smooth cut and the shots jump from picture to picture.
What is flash back	This is when you have an image that goes back into time, have different effect and then goes back into the present.
What is establishing shot	filmmaking and television production sets up, or establishes the context for a scene by showing the   relationship between its important figures and objects
What is shot reverse shot	This is when you have an image which is set on someone then you see the person that they are talking to and go back to the main character (me, you, me)
What is crossing cutting	When you have got different images and you want then to fade into each of them at the same time.
What is reaction shot	When you can see someone reactions in the shots.
What is elliptical shot	When you have got lots of different shots but you can cut it down to make it less and isn’t needed also if you can tell the story in 2 shots then why you are going to use 10.
What is poetical editing	This isn’t a set story, it’s more abstract.
What is P.O.V shot	This is when there is a footage looking from someone point of view.
Continuity editing	Seamless invisible editing that focuses on telling a story. Involves audience in the narrative.
180 degree	Always have to keep camera the same side of the action.
Montage	Series of shots cut together to tell a story in a condensed period of time. Often breaks continuity. Minimal diagetic sound, usually non-diagetic soundtrack.
Cut on action	Cutting two shots – matching the action in each on eg: cut from wide to close up in the middle of an action.
Eye line match	The eye line between two characters matches – eg: they are looking at each toher or looking into a space > then we see that space.
Graphic matching	Cutting two shots together which uses the same shape/colour as a way of linking instead of narrative purposes. Suggests a relationship between two images.
Rhythmic	Cutting to the beat.
Condensing time	Making time seem shorter.
Expanding time	Making time seem longer.
Pace	How fast or slow the cutting is. Used to create tension/ suspense.
Contrasting time	Contrast in the pace of shots eg: from fast to slow. This exaggerates the impact of what is happing.
Juxtaposition of images	Two contrasting images – makes more impact to the editing. Used a lot in intellectual montage.
Dissolve / cross fade	One shot slowly replaces the other, so that both are temporarily present on the screen. It creates a softer cut. Usually suggest a relationship between the two images eg: one character is thinking about the other.
Transition	Different ways of moving from one shot/scene to another. Cut, fade, dissolve, wipe.
Cut	Where you cut the shot. Cut shots together = putting them next to one-another. One shot is replaced by another without any transition – basic editing.
Close up	A closer shot on a character which shows the emotion and enables audience to feel more intimate with the character, therefore more involved in story.
Cut in	Close up on an object or other part of a shot – used to draw attention to the significance of the object or to avoid a jump cut.
Cut away	Similar reason to a cut-in, a shot that shows something else in the scene that did not appear in the shot before