The essence of cinema is editing.” If you’re an aspiring film editor, you know your craft matters — and you know it also matters how you speak and think about your craft. We’ve compiled a guide to help you beef up your terminology and learn to communicate about editing like a pro. The following are some fundamental digital editing terms that editors should know: your concise guide to an editing vocabulary. Cut A transition where one shot is instantly followed by another. Continuity Editing Visual editing where shots are cut together in a clear and linear flow of uninterrupted action. This type of cutting seeks to maintain a continuous sense of time and space. Continuity Error When the action or elements of a scene don’t match across shots. For example, when a character breaks a glass window but in a later shot the window is shown undamaged. Cross Cutting Technique used to give the illusion that two story lines of action are happening at the same time by ra...
Aquatic Films UK Aquatic Films is an international sales company for documentaries. We work with independent producers helping them to reach foreign audiences through sales on the international market. We are looking for 52’ documentaries, series or titles having both a TV and a feature-length version, be they finished or at a rough cut stage. Our interest focuses on current affairs and arts & culture titles. Among our recent titles, we have an inspirational road-movie called Romantic Road (a film by Oliver McGarvey) and an epic family saga revolving around the mystery of stolen children, called My Mother’s Lost children (a film by Danny Ben-Moshe). For more information, please email silvia@aquaticfilms.net . Autlook Film Sales AUSTRIA Based in Vienna and New York, Autlook Filmsales is one of the leading sales agents for feature documentaries and doc series. Since 2006 Autlook has been building a strong and varied network of partners including digital platforms, thea...
Green Screen: Technically, this term refers to the colored background you want to make transparent and remove from your shot. This is usually a single colored backdrop, which can be any color, but is usually bright green because it is the color furthest away from human skin tones. (Blue screens were frequently used in the early days with film, and might still be used in certain cases.) Sometimes the term is used as a fit-all for the entire process of keying Chroma Key: This popular term goes hand-in-hand with green screen . It’s the actual technique of layering, or compositing two images based on color hues. Every color has a chroma range, hence where the terminology comes from. Keying: This term is used to describe the process of removing the green screen background in post-production using video editing software. When the green screen background has been keyed, it will be fully transparent. Then you can fill in that transparent area with a differen...
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