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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What are the two prime directives of news video editing?






2. Everything made upstream flows __________






3. Jump Cut = __________






4. What are the rules of engagement?






5. Match Cut = __________






6. What are shadow cuts?






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






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






9. The chronology of editing work






10. What is the number one prime directive?






11. Where editors gather assets






12. Editing is __________.






13. Where editors juxtapose






14. Editing is the discovery of a __________.






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






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






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






18. Production should be the __________.






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






20. Every shot:






21. A creative solution to a technological problem






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






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






24. What is the process of critiquing our work?






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






26. What are some examples of shadow cuts?






27. Where editors audition assets






28. What does coverage mean in editing?






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






30. What were the two pictures of the editing machines?






31. 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.






32. Raison D'etre means


33. Where editors view their work