Today in class, our job was to work on our editing technique project with our groups. My group decided to go about this project by looking up scenes from random movies, and then distinguishing what editing techniques were used where. Jump cut, wipes, cutting on action, smash cut, dissolve, invisible cut, cross cut, J cut, Iris cut, and match cut were all of the techniques my group and I used and analyzed. Mr. Rivers included a link in order for us to further understand the definitions of each editing technique. We learned that cutting on action is cutting while there is movement on-screen, a cutaway is cutting to an insert shot and then back, cross-cutting is going back and forth between locations, jump cuts are disjointed edits in the same shot or action, match cuts are cuts from one shot to a similar shot by either matching the action or composition, fade ins/outs go to/from black, etc. I found that it was very easy to observe the different effects within each movie clip and I realized that there are so many editing techniques that compose a movie that make it so effective and compelling to the audience. All of this research within this project is helpful for my classmates and I, as we will be doing a video essay and will have to utilize these transitions and techniques into our own work.
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