Editing techniques

Lately I have learned new editing techniques that can help to improve my opening sequence to make it more realistic. Here are examples of them:

Eyeline match - When the audience wants to see what the character is seeing. In this clip, the audience will want to see where the character is seeing, for example the eye contact that is currently being made and their views towards the cigarretes.

Graphic match - Where the sound matches what is being currently viewed. In this scene, when the explosion is visualized, it is followed up by sounds of things exploding, glass breaking etc. This adds more realism to the current situation.

Jump cut - A sudden transition from one thing to another to speed up the process of a current action. In this clip, there is quick transitions of him preparing himself so that this scene can be done quicker.

Crosscutting - The cutting between 2 or more scenes to show action from different locations. In this part of the movie, crosscutting is used to show the similarity between the two different locations and how they can link together as in both of the locations, there is small conflict happening which links both scenes  together.

Parallel editing - Continuously alternating two or more scenes which are happening simulatenously. From this scene, as the action is happening at the same time, the audience would believe that the police is breaking into the crazy man's house but instead they break into the wrong house which can add confusion yet interest into the scenes that will follow up.

 

Cutaway - When something is said, the current scene is paused and a reference to the audience is shown.In this scene from Family Guy, a cutaway is used to reference the audience when Lois says "the kids aren't learning anything at that Italian school" and the use of the different scene just shows that to the audience.

Transitions:

Dissolve - Where the image dissolves away into something else

Wipe - A transition that cleans away a scene to move into another

Fade In - A slow transition in which the images fades into the screen

Fade out - A slow transition in which the scene slowly fades away from the screen

Super imposition - To edit something or someone into the scene(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNTu06FY_uM)

Visual effects - Effects that are not real but can be made to add more emphasis into something, for example over dramatized explosions or lightsabers, lazers etc. In Star Wars lightsabers are widely used as lightsabers obviously don't exist.