Film Editing Techniques Quiz

The process of taking raw footage to select and combine shots to create a complete motion picture  

• Continuity Editing

• Editing

• Cross Cutting

• Continuity Error

Transition where one shot is instantly followed by another

• Invisible Cut

• Cross Cutting

• Cut

• Cutaway

Visual editing where shots are cut together in a clear and linear flow of uninterrupted action. Seeks to maintain a continuous sense of time and space

• Continuity Editing

• Editing

• Montage

• Continuity Error

When the action or elements of a scene don’t match across shots. For example, when a character breaks a glass window, but in a later shot, the window is shown undamaged

• Rough Cut

• Jump Cut

• Cross Cutting

• Continuity Error

Give the illusion that two story lines of action are happening at the same time by rapidly cutting back and forth between them

• Fade

• Cross Cutting

• Invisible Cut

• Sequence Shot

The interruption of a continuously filmed action with a shot that’s peripherally related to the principal action  

• J Cuts

• Matched Cut

• Jump Cut

• Cutaway

The end of one shot overlaps the start of the next one to create a gradual scene transition 

• Dissolve

• Fade

• Iris

• Wipe

A shot that gives viewers an idea where the scene is taking place. Involves a shot from a long distance (like a bird’s eye view)

• Establishing Shot

• Sweetening

• Sequence Shot

• Shot Reverse Shot

A technique based on an idea that viewers want to see what on-screen characters are seeing

• Matched Cut

• Eyeline Match

• Montage

• Iris

Visual effect used to indicate a change in place and time. Involves a gradual brightening as a shot opens or a gradual darkening as the shot goes black or to another color. Sounds also fade in and out to convey changes 

• Iris

• Fade

• Sweetening

• Wipe