editing is organising footage into one continuous sequence to create a narrative for a film or tv show, or it is selecting raw footages and placing them in sequential order on a timeline. there are many different terms in editing which I would be explaining in this blog.
the first one being tempo. a tempo is the time that the shot is on the screen and is usually on an average of 4.75 seconds. the tempo can change based on the genre or the style of the cinematographer or editor. while editing especially on a complex software such as premiere pro, there is 'time in' and 'time out' being the staring and ending point when an action starts or ends in a frame.
we also use continuity editing as it makes sure that our footage and edited clip contains a flow and is not awkward to look at, or that some important details have been skipped out. there is also a master shot which can also be called establishing shot in cinematography terms, where you can tell about the location and often about all the characters present. then there is eyeline match which is a cut between two shots, in which the first shot shows a person looking off in one direction, and the second shot shows either a space containing what he or she sees or a person looking back in exactly the opposite direction.
there is a graphic match which is a cut transition between two objects of a similar shape, it is also to link two objects metaphorically or to create continuity in a piece. in continuity editing, there is also insert shot which is a part of a scene as filled from a different angle or focal length from the master shot. there is also the 180-degree rule for continuity.
there is match on action which is Cutting between different views of the same moment in an action without disrupting audience view, this is similar to insert shots but is different. there is also one thing called the long take which is a shot which unfolds in real-time for about 8-10 seconds without any cuts. one more being reverse editing, a cut showing what the character is looking at, followed by a reverse shot of the character themselves looking at it.
now we come to montage editing. Montage is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time & information. then there is also Associative Montage, it is the juxtaposition of two contrasting images which can be interpreted as having a similar thematic meaning. the is flashback and flash-forward that are simple to understand and there is jump-cutting which is a cut in film editing in which two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly.
there are also several different transitions. to name a few of them they are, straight cut, overlap, dissolve, graphic match, fade in and fade out, wipe and flash. while editing we can also use special effects which make the clip more interesting some of them are, black and white, contrast, animation, colour, CGI, blur, ghost trail and fast forward plus slow motion.
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