Editing Techniques

Continuity Editing

This technique is used mainly to present the text in a chronological order to show the time movement of the narrative and to help make it more realistic because it looks as if it is continuous filming. It is supposed to look as if it is a real experience of moving through time, even though it would last a longer period of time. 

Cross Cutting

This is when an editor cuts between two separate scenes that are happening at the same time to show the link or difference between them.

Cut

Cut is one of the simpler and most common techniques as it is an abrupt move from one shot to another.

Cutaway

Cutaway shot is an interruption of a shot to show a similar scene, action, object or person before cutting back to the original scene. 

Dissolve

This technique is a gradual transition from one shot to another, when the original shot is on the screen but the second shot begins to gradually appear over the top of it until that shot is all you can see. 

Ellipsis

Used to speed up action by removing certain shots. For example you could use it to miss out the middle of a story to show how time has passed. 

Eyeline Match
A technique that keeps the eyeline when cutting from a character to what the character is looking at, putting us in the position of the character.

These are only a few out of a variety of editing techniques, but by doing this research I have learnt a lot about how I can use some of these techniques in our own work. It is also important for me to understand some editing techniques so I can take them into consideration while filming to make sure they turn out how they are supposed to be and plan them out before hand.