👀 WHAT DO YOU SEE?
This technique shows a character looking off-screen, followed by what they are looking at.
What is Eyeline Match?
An action begins in one shot and continues from another angle in the next shot.
What is Cut on Action?
This editing technique alternates between separate actions or locations.
What is Cross-Cutting?
You hear the next shot's audio before seeing its picture.
What is a J-Cut?
This technique combines two different images to create a new idea or association.
What is Intellectual Montage?
An eyeline match helps maintain this quality between two shots so the scene feels natural.
What is visual continuity?
This technique keeps the viewer's attention in approximately the same part of the frame across cuts.
What is Eye Trace?
Cross-cutting between two events happening at the same time can create this feeling for the audience.
What is suspense?
The picture changes, but audio from the previous shot continues playing.
What is an L-Cut?
Intellectual montage asks viewers to make this between two seemingly different images.
What is a connection or association?
In the first shot of an eyeline match, the character usually does this.
What is looks off-screen?
For a successful cut on action, an editor should make the cut at this point in the movement.
What is during the action?
Two football teams preparing in these separate locations could be cross-cut together before a championship game.
What are locker rooms?
J-Cuts and L-Cuts belong to this larger family of editing techniques.
What are Split Edits?
A crowded lunchroom followed by animals competing for food creates this implied idea.
What is the lunchroom resembles a feeding frenzy/competition for food?
A quarterback looks downfield. This person could be shown in the next shot to complete an eyeline match.
Who is the receiver?
In a fast sports montage, keeping this object in approximately the same screen position could demonstrate eye trace.
What is the ball?
Firefighters entering a building are intercut with this group waiting outside in your workbook example.
Who is the family?
In a J-Cut, this element from the incoming clip arrives first.
What is audio?
An empty trophy case followed by students practicing late at night could communicate this future outcome.
What is future success?
Eyeline match helps the audience understand this relationship between a character and something outside the frame.
What is where the character is looking?
Cut on action is designed to make this transition between two camera angles feel smooth and nearly unnoticed.
What is the edit/cut?
Cross-cutting allows an editor to connect two separate actions without requiring them to occur in this.
What is the same location?
A coach's speech continues while the picture changes to players warming up. This particular split edit is being used.
What is an L-Cut?
Rather than simply showing continuous action, intellectual montage is primarily designed to create this in the viewer's mind.
What is new meaning?