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Video Editing Basic Vocab

Instructions:
  • Answer 33 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. What were the two pictures of the editing machines?






2. What are the rules of engagement?






3. How much time it took to edit a minute.






4. What are the two prime directives of news video editing?






5. What are some examples of shadow cuts?






6. What is the number one prime directive?






7. As we become more proficient - we become more ___________






8. Where are the plates in a 6 plate flatbed?






9. What does coverage mean in editing?






10. Editing is the discovery of a __________.






11. The central pre-occupation of a film editor is to put themselves in place of the __________






12. Match Cut = __________






13. Every shot:






14. Where editors gather assets






15. What is the process of critiquing our work?






16. What is the rule of 6? (in order)






17. As you write (or EDIT) - you are relating with the human __________ and human __________ forming an __________ with your audience - and owning their emotional __________ in your story.






18. A creative solution to a technological problem






19. In the edit - the film is finding its __________






20. Production should be the __________.






21. What are shadow cuts?






22. Editing is __________.






23. Everything made upstream flows __________






24. We want to __________ the quality of the editing work while __________ the amount of time it takes to get there.






25. The of the clips in your sequence as essentials for the __________






26. Where editors juxtapose






27. Where editors view their work






28. What are some things we have in the digital age that we did not have in the analogue?






29. Juxtaposition is placing or dealing with items close together for...






30. Raison D'etre means


31. The chronology of editing work






32. Jump Cut = __________






33. Where editors audition assets