Preliminary Exercise: Editing in Film

      Six visual editing techniques are cross cutting, cut away, dissolve, fade, J and L cut, and jump cut. Cross cutting involves two or more separate actions by cutting back to them one at a time. This can create an illusion of both scenes happening all at once, or have the scenes serve as parallels of one another. Cutaway is an abrupt cot from one thing to another. It might mean to cut away from one thing to bring attention to another thing also. It's used to provide irony to a scene or unsettle the audience in some way. Dissolve is one of the most common editing techniques. It's when the visuals of one scene overlapping with the visuals of the incoming one. Fade is similar to dissolve, but they serve different purposes. With a fade, either to white or black, a scene comes to an end. A J cut is when the audio from the next scene is inserted into the current scene before we get to see where the sound is coming from. An L cut is the opposite. It's when the sound from the previous scene is still playing as we enter the next scene. A jump cut is when there is no continuity between shots. This was mainly created to simply cut time off from a movie by eliminating needless seconds in a scene.

      Two sound editing techniques are foley and ADR. Foley are sounds that someone needs to record. Sounds like footsteps, slamming or squeaking doors or floorboards, and glass breaking. It's the creation or recreation of sounds unable to be executed on set. ADR stands for Automated Dialogue Replacement. It is when the dialogue on set must be re-recorded. The sound might not have been captured correctly or precisely enough and must be re-recorded.