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 Montage | To assemble film images by editing shots together, often rapidly, to condense passing time or events. |
| American montage | A style of editing typical of many Hollywood films, which condenses time or summarized many events in a few shots. Also called a Hollywood Montage |
| Russian Montage | A style of editing, typical of that used by prominent Soviet Filmmakers in the 1920s, which employs dynamic cutting techniques to evoke strong emotional, and even physical, reactions to film images. |
| Narrative Montage | Editing that constructs a story with film images by arranging shots in carefully sequenced order. |
| Establishing shot | A camera shot, usually at long range, that identifies, or establishes, the location of a scene. |
| Cutaway shot | A shot of an image or an action in a film scene that is not part of the main action; sometimes used to cover breaks in a scene's continuity. |
| Matching actions | Cutting together different shots of an action on a common gesture or movement in order to make the action appear continuous on the screen. Also called a match cut. |
| Parallel editing | Editing together shots of two or more actions occurring simultaneously. Also called intercutting, or parallel action. |
| Eyeline Match | Editing shots that are aligned, or matched, to suggest that two characters in separate shots are looking at each other. |
| Fades | An optical effect in which the screen gradually brightens as a shot opens or gradually darkens as a shot goes black or another blank color. Sound also fades in or out when the sound track gradually changes from silence to sound, or from sound to silence. |
| Fade-in | An optical effect in which the screen gradually brightens as a shot opens. |
| Fade-out | An optical effect when the screen gradually darkens as a shot goes to black or some other blank color. |
| Shock cut (smash cut) | A jarring transition between two actions occurring at different times or places. Also called a smash cut. |
| Wipes | An optical effect in which one image replaces another by pushing, or wiping, it off the screen. |
| Jump cut | An abrupt transition between shots that disrupts (often deliberately) the continuity of time or space within a scene. |
| Zooms in | A shot with a zoom lens which makes the image appear to move closer by varying the length of the lens. |
| Zooms out | A shot with a zoom lens, that makes the image appear farther away by varying the length of the lens. |
