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EDITING
Plan and Create the Following
Use the slides in the powerpoint
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ATE  Explanation: Cutting while the subject is in action. This
can be while someone is walking, falling or tripping.
CUTTING Or having an object or item moving such as a sack.

ON ACTION
MIND MAP Walk
then cut
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another
angle

Someone Throw a
running from a Jump in a
punch from a
mid shot from direction then
wide shot then
behind then into cut to been in
a mid shot of have a close
front of the
them running to up on the face
landing spot
the side been punched.
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A guy is running then jumps. He lands Infront of the camera Moves a little, gets blocked
and keeps moving by baddy

Both make fighting poses Guy does a run and jump to Guy nocks baddy clean out
punch baddy
 Explanation: Were the
camera cuts to another scene
that is either relevant or
CUT AWAY irrelevant. 1. cut away to
show what someone is
talking about or to show that
someone is in danger when
people say there not.
MIND MAP People are

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telling this
person that
their brother is
alright when
he's not.

A guy is telling
A guy is in the A guy is writing
his brother that a
GYM training for a company secrets
cat is evil,
fight, it cuts to his in a book while it
shows normal
rivel also training. cuts to a spy
cat. Repeat a
(could be combined taking pictures of
couple times.
with jump cuts) them
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A guy tries to explain to his brother Shows a very normal cat The brother keeps trying to explain,
that the cat is evil. his brother thinks he’s lost it.
acting like a cat

The cat is still just a cat. His brother turns to leave to The cat tells him that he knows too
much and must die.
call a doctor.
 Explanation: A cut
typically used for
phone
CROSS CUT conversations, goes
back and forth
between characters
or something like it.
MIND MAP Two people are

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having a serious
conversation on
the phone about
her health to her
mother.

An old hitman is
A guy is trying to help get
blacked mailed over the A guy is his friend out from under
phone by his old boss trying to a fallen tree branch while
to make one final hit, escape his it constantly cut back to
one person he failed to capture before an avalanche getting
kill. Or his daughter they get back. closer and closer.
would die.
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An old hitman receives a call His boss tells him that they have his The hitman tells him not to harm his
daughter, and he must kill an old adversary daughter and that he’ll do it.
from his old boss. who has come back from the grave.

The Boss tells him where he can The hitman tells his all boss He sets out immediately to
get all the info, he needs that he is on it. find his target.
 Explanation: it is
used to show the
passage of time,
JUMP CUT jumping say 20
seconds – 1-hour
time jumps between
a shot. Or to show a
sense of urgency.
MIND MAP Show someone

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waiting around in
one room
constantly
changing
position

Have a montage A training

of someone montage,
trying to open a show Show someone
door then someone brainstorming ideas
realizing it’s a trying to learn while trying to
pull door not a a new skill. assemble something
push and workout the
flaws in the possess.

Someone
driving in a
car with the
Show someone
time of day
rapidly packing
changing in
their bag full of
the
items in a hurry.
background
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A guy tries to open a door, the door is He then try’s a basic standing He then tries to do a running
locked and so try’s another way.
kick, fails. drop kick, fails.

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VU VU

He then tries a He then takes it to a new extreme, he pulls Now going to stupid levels of
out a chainsaw and tries to saw through, extremes, he tries a Rocket launcher,
sledgehammer, fails fails.
fails.
 Explanation: they are like
jump cuts however they are
used more as scene transitions
going from two very alike

MATCH CUT scenes, i.e. someone closes

their eyes in one place then
reopens them in another. Or
through words, such as “look
at that massive…” ”willy”,
with 2 different people saying
it.
MIND MAP A girl closes their

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eyes in the cave
then wakes up in
hospital
wondering where
they are

A woman is singing a A guy is having a bad

song within this A group of people dream and is running
whimsical are dancing in fancy away from a monster.
environment then cloths and on a He then falls into a pit
falls backwards onto fancy car, then it of spikes headfirst
a bed of flowers but cuts to them in while screaming. He
transitions to her mucky cloths and on then he jolts up
falling onto her bed. a run-down car. screaming.
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A guy starts singing a song in It transitions to him in fancy He jumps around singing a
stanned cloths. cloths. song about desire.

He keeps singing and He lays his head down on a Transitions back into his normal
dancing. fancy bed. cloths on a very basic bed.
 Explanation: To go
from either an
SMASH CUT intense to quite
scenes or quite to
intense scenes.
MIND MAP A guy is having a

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calm stroll and having
a drink from his water
bottle, in the next
scene he’s been shot at
by guns.

A vet calmly tells

A guy says that A girl is running from some local tuff guys to
he wouldn’t a vicious creature leave this couple
mind a little trying to kill her to alone, then cuts to him
party, it then going threw a portal raising hell in the bar
cuts to an into a calm field of and beating the hell
intense rave. flowers. out of this gang.
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A solder asks too idiots to leave because they

are drunk
They start a fight and get A while later he’s walking
recked. home with a drink.

The guys from earlier come back with some

friends of theirs and guns.
The pursuit continues. Cuts to him safe on a bed of
flowers.
 Explanation: Where a
scene cuts seamlessly

INVISIBLE into the next. By either

having the character
going through a dark
CUT spot, closing in on an
object were it can cut to
the next scene without
been noticed.
MIND MAP A lady is walking
threw multiple
doorways dropping

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changes to the next
scene every time she
goes through a
doorway

Two people are in a room Two people are talking

together, one is trying to in-between a door frame.
produce a reason for The door closes but audio
something and tells the keeps going. (Scene
other to look in a ends), keeps on the door
different direction then then the door opens again
legs it. with the characters still
talking.
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A couple are talking to each They talk calmly about what had They keep talking over audio
other. happened that day scene transition

The new scene starts as the audio also They start to argue because they They end up in a full-blown
now transition and keeps playing disagree with who’s to blame. argument.
 Explanation: when
the audio from the
L - CUT current scene
carry’s over to the
next scene.
MIND MAP A guy gets stabbed

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by a thug and it cuts
to the next scene of
his friends running
away hearing his
screams

A musician is An up-beat theme tune

singing an up-beat is playing over a
song then it cuts montage but then cuts
them drinking their to them calmly in a bar
sorrows away. as the montage music
begins to fade away.
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(Music plays through out all Lifts some wights Uses the punching bag
scenes). A guy does star
jumps.

Does a bit of treadmill Does some jump rope. The music slowly starts to
fade away.
 Explanation: The
opposite of an L-
cut, where the
J - CUT audio from the
next scene starts
playing before the
scene starts.
MIND MAP A boy is
looking at a

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photo, audio
begins to play
before going
to a flash
back.

A guy is driving home, he A teenage girl is telling

looks at the time. He’s 2 A guy is in a her dad that she’s only
hours late. He looks sadly dream, it’s a good going to a quite party with
into the distance. Audio is dream then a her boyfriend as rave
then heard (muffled to voice say’s wake music is heard in the
clear) of his wife having a up then cuts to background until it shows
go at him for been late. him waking up. her at a rave getting drunk
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A teenage girl is getting in a Her dad comes out to talk with them She tells him she will
to tell them to be safe
car with her friends.

Rave music starts playing in Cuts to her parting at a rave, “Other” noises are heard in the
background with bear all over the
the background getting hammered. floor.
DISSOLVE
 To dissolve the footage into a new scene. Have it play as montage that overlaps with other
footage to show the passage of time, to show flash backs while transitioning into another
scene.
 The woman looks
depressed int the
car, sobbing her
eyes. The camera
dissolves to her
opening the door at
home

A guy has gone to pick

up his date from her
house and asks where
she would like to go.
The camera dissolves
to them sat down at
their table having
dinner.
A guy goes to pick his Girlfriend They star moving towards the They start getting in the car as
up for a dinner date. car. it dissolves to black.

The darkness recedes to They talk about stuff at the They then receive their meal.
revile the two at a table. table.