Styles of editing

There are lots of types of editing when it comes to making a movie. Some of the editing styles are known as eye-line match, speed, shot / reverse / shot, action match, montage, slow motion, and transition.

There are lots of types of transitions, these types are straight cuts, dissolves, fades, wipes, jump cuts and graphic match.

Straight cut
What a straight cut does is help retain reality in a film. this is to help not break a viewers suspension of disbelief.

Dissolves
A dissolve is when one shot on screen is fading off and a shot is fading in. This allows both the audience will be able see both shots on the screen at the mid-point of the dissolve. This is usually used to connection in between two people or two things.

Fades
A fade is a gradual darkening or lightening of an image until it is black or white. A fade will fade until you are left with only a black or white screen.  A fade is used if the producer wants to indicate the end of time within the narrative. It also can indicate the passing of time.

Wipes
This is when a shot is pushed off the screen by another shot. They are usually pushed left or right of the screen. It is more common when the shot is to be pushed from the left side of the screen because it gives a signal that there is movement id location or time.

Jump Cut
A jump cut is when the audiences attention is brought into there focus on someone or something very suddenly. This only happens by breaking the continuity editing, also known as discontinuity. A jump cut appears as if a section of a sequence has been removed.

Graphic Match
This is when two consecutive shots are matched in terms of the way they look, for example having one image going into another image but they look similar.