Cutting Techniques
The cutting technique where you cut on a moment, to a similar/matching moment to create a smooth transition,
What is match cutting?
The Hot Key that allows users to copy an item.
What is CTRL-C?
The composition technique that pushes its subject to the side rather than the center of a shot.
What is the Rule of Thirds?
The main lightsource in a shot, typically in a three point lighting set up.
What is the Key Light?
Audio that plays in the background of a scene in order to set the films tone or influence the audiences feelings, createing the score for the film.
What is Music?
A cutting technique where you hide your cut to give the illusion of one whole shot, either by using elements in the shot or by whip panning.
What are hidden cuts?
The Premiere Tool that allows users to cut a clip.
What is the Razor?
The composition technique that requires one side of the shot to reflect the other, creating two sides that are matching.
What is Symmetry?
The light that covers shadows that the main light may have missed, typically in a three point lighting set up.
What is a fill light?
Sounds that a sound designer creates to represent a specific action that can’t be naturally heard in real life.
A cutting technique where you cut between the same shot, but different positioning of the subjects. This often shows the passage of time.
What are Jump cuts?
The tab that you click when you are ready to export your video.
What is Share?
The composition technique that includes Invisible Lines that lead the viewers eyes towards the subject of a shot.
What are leading lines?
The light that brightens the back of a subjects head in order to fill in shadow and seperate them from the background.
What is a rim/back/hair light?
Actors hired to play a character or to read lines for a film, however, they are only heard and not seen; often for animated films and advertisments.
What are Voice Actors?
The cutting technique that involves cutting in the middle of a movement or action in order to create a smooth transtion.
What is cutting on action?
A row on the timeline that can hold either a video or audio clip.
What is a Track?
The Composition technique where there is an empty area around or between the subject of an image, design, or film
What is Negative Space?
Lighting that is used and already found within a scene, such as a lamp, chandeliere, candles, etc.
What are practical lights?
The ambience in any given room when not interrupted by any outside force. Often, this is recorded on a set in order to give seens unoticable backgroun noise in order to avoid pure silence.
What is Room Tone
The two types of cuts that show video first before its matching audio or vice versa that are known as split cuts. These two specifically get their name since they create the shape of two letters on the time line.
What are J and L cuts?
The effect the allows video or audio to fade in or out.
What is Cross Dissolve?
The type of compositional technique that involves using or adding elements surrounding your subject to emphasize and lead the viewer’s eye toward your subject or to simply add interest to your image.
What is Framing?
Light that is softened by either boucing it off of a surface or pushing it through a thin sheet, such as a soft box.
What is diffused lighting?
Thes sounds are added audio elements that make scenes more realistic. An artist takes what is happening in the scene and adds a louder sound effect to help enhance the scene.
What is Folley?