Editing techniques can be used to manipulate the flow of time in a video. Continuity editing tells a story in chronological order through short shots, while montage editing uses shorter shots to show pieces of action out of order. Other techniques include long takes with few cuts, slow motion to slow down action, and ellipses that leap forward in time. Transitions between shots like cuts, dissolves, and fades help switching between scenes and locations.

1. Editing

2. General terms

3. Continuity editing
An editing style that tells the action in
chronological order. E.g. soaps.
Montage editing
An editing style that puts pieces of action
together, not in a chronological order (non linear
order). Long take
A long shot is an uninterrupted shot in a film
which lasts much longer than the conventional
editing pace, usually lasting several minutes.

4. Short take
Opposite of a long take, this is used in montage and
means we have rapid edits from shot to shot.
Slow motion
Editing a film or playing back video more slowly
than it was made or recorded, so that the action
appears much slower than in real life.
Ellipsis
The cut does not go to the next instant point of the
drama, but leaps forward in time, this could be
seconds, minuets, hours or even years. This leap is
often captioned, e.g. ‘Six months later’.

5. Expansion of time
An style of editing in which you expand the time of
the video, making the duration of the sequence
longer than real-time.
Post-production visual effects
Imagery which is added and/or manipulated
after live production/shooting has finished

6. Cutting

7. Shot/reverse shot
A film technique where the camera flips between two
characters looking at each other, so on one shot we see
them looking at the other and then it switches round.
Eyeline match
Eyeline match is a part of continuity editing, where
in one shot you see the character looking at the
something and then in the next you see what they
are looking that from their eyeline.

8. Graphic match
Is when we cut to a shot of an object that is
similar to one in a previous shot in the same
place on the screen.
Action match
Action match is a part of continuity editing, where
the actin of charter is followed up by the next
logical action of that charter, e.g. in one shot we
see a charter reaching out to a door handle and on
the next we see the door swinging open.

9. Jump cut
A jump cut is a cut in film editing in which two
consecutive shots of the same subject are taken from
camera positions that vary only slightly. This type of
edit gives the effect of jumping forwards in time.
Cross cutting/parallel editing
Cross cutting/parallel editing is the technique of
alternating two or more scenes that often
happen simultaneously but in different
locations.

10. Cutaway
A cutaway is a shot that's usually of something
other than the current action. It could be a
different subject or a close up of a different part
of the subject.
Insert
A cut from a wide shot to a shot of detail.
E.g. a close up.

11. Transitions

12. Cut
The move from one shot to another.
Cross dissolve
Fade in
The gradual transition from one shot to another.
The shot fades in from black to full image of
the action, usually it only takes a few
seconds.

13. Fade out
The shot image fades out gradually to a black
screen, this is often used to switch to a new
scene and/or location.
wipe
Superimposition
An editing technique where one shot
appears on the screen and moves across
pushing the other off.
Is the placement of an image or video on top of
an already existing image or video.