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Editing

Continuity Editing

Continuity editing is the predominant style of film editing and video editing in the post-production process of filmmaking. It is used to smooth out the original discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical order and transition between shots.

Eyeline

The eyeline 'rule', is the asumptuion, that the audiacne will want to see what the character is seeing, meaning, that they place all of the shots at the 'eyeline level' of the characters, thus makeing them more able to realte to the characters.

It is also, where you see what a character is looking at off screan, but at there eyeline level. For example, if a character is looking off screan, then in the next shot you see the TV he was looking at at his eye level.

Match on Action

Match on Action, is an editing technique for continuity editing in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject in the first shot. Creating the impreasion of continuity.

Montage

Montage is achieved with a collection of symbolically related images, cut together in a way that suggests psychological relationships rather then a chronoligical order of things.

180°

The 180° rule is a filming guideline that participants in a scene should have the same left-right relationship to each other, with the filming only taking place within the 180° angle in which this is maintained in a conversation.

Cross Cutting

Crosscutting, is showing things that are happeing at diffrent times, at diffrent places, one after the other, cutting to the next one, inbeatween the shots of the other one. 

It can be achieved by cutting back and forth between shots of unrelated places.

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