Week 10 - Types of Cuts and Cutting on Action

Types of cuts/ transitions:

• Straight Cut - When you cut straight down the middle, from one to the next.
• Contrast Cut - When you cut to something that contrasts to the first shot. Like cutting from black and white to colour.
• Match Cut - When you cut to match with how the shot looks, sounds and context of the shot. There is a relationship between the two.
• L and J shaped Cuts - This is where the video and audio are not cut at the same time and one is cut before the other, depending on whether it is a J or an L shot.
•  Parallel Cut - This suggests a relationship between them. Parallel cut - Naked gun
• Jump Cut - When this is done it looks unnatural as it suddenly changes.
• Wipe - It is a transition from one scene to another. Star Wars III Revenge of the wipes
• Fading and Dissolving - With fading you normally fade into black, usually at the end of an edit. With dissolving you fade into another image.
• Morph - When something changes over time. Saving Private Ryan Morph

All of these are very useful to know while editing my own edits.

An example of some unique editing techniques can be found in the director Satoshi Kon. This video discusses his work with editing.

Unique Editing

Cutting on Action (traditional editing)

• Cut to change of angle and on a characters action
• Match cuts using the same speed, direction and momentum
• Don't repeat frames to make movement fluid and continuous 
• This makes a cut almost invisible and prevents us from thinking too much about it as an audience.

Example of where this is used is in Fist of Legend because of the speed of editing the way they edited it prevents the audience from noticing mistakes first hand.

We went on to look at a talk about the Invisible Cut with Tim Squyer and Bobbie O'Stein. This was very useful.