Literature and Film Editing Worksheet

3. The machine that editors used to cut and connect the clips before the digital era.
9. The period of how long a cut is shown to the audience.
10. The cutting crosses back and forth between two or more simultaneous actions.
12. To achieve logic, smoothness, and sequential flow for viewers.
13. The action is photographed multiple times with a variety of different shot types and angles.
15. The speed at which a shot sequence flows.

1. To place two shots together in sequence.
2. One actor’s gaze is aimed in a particular direction offscreen in one shot, and the direction of the other actor’s eyes is mirrored in the corresponding shot.
4. The image begins as just a small circle and then expands.
5. The mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.
6. An integrated series of shots that rapidly depicts multiple related events occurring over time.
7. Repeating a similar shape, color, or other compositional elements from one shot to the next.
8. Two shots of the same subject taken from the same camera position are edited together.
11. The entire interaction is filmed with the camera first framed on one character, then the camera is moved to a reverse position facing the second character.
14. The temporal leap between shots.