Chapter 6 Flashcards
(17 cards)
Cut
Instantaneous change from one shot to another.
Fade
When a shot fades in or out to black.
Dissolve
The end of shot A is superimposed into the beginning of shot B.
Wipe
Shot A is replaced by shot B by means of a boundary line moving across the screen.
Graphic Match
When two shots are linked by graphic similarities.
Jump Cut
An elliptical cut that appears to be an interruption of a single shot. Either the figures seem to change instantly against a constant background or vice versa.
Elliptical Editing
Shot transitions that omit parts of an event. Shortens the amount of screen time an event or action actually takes in reality.
Overlapping Editing
Cut that repeats part or all of an action. Makes an action or event take long on screen than it would in reality.
Continuity Editing
Based on narrative continuity. Arranging shots together to tell a narrative clearly.
The scene space is built around
the Axis of Action
What does the 180degree system ensure?
That relative positions within the frame remain consistent.
POV Shot
Point of view shot, shot from the charcters point of view
Establishing Shot
A shot that usually involves distant framing that shows the spatial relations among the important figures, objects and setting in a scene.
Shot/reverse Shot
Showing one end of the 180 line and then the other.
Eyeline Match
Shot A shows someone looking at something offscreen, shot B shows what they’re looking at.
Match on Action
A continuity cut that splices two different views of the same action at the same moment in the movement, making it seem to continue uninterrupted.
Crosscutting
Editing that alternates shots of two or more lines of action occurring in different places, usually simultaneously.
