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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. Raison D'etre means


2. Where editors audition assets






3. What are shadow cuts?






4. What is the number one prime directive?






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. 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.






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






13. Jump Cut = __________






14. Where editors view their work






15. A creative solution to a technological problem






16. Where editors gather assets






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






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






19. Match Cut = __________






20. What are some examples of shadow cuts?






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






22. Editing is __________.






23. Production should be the __________.






24. What are the rules of engagement?






25. Every shot:






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






27. What does coverage mean in editing?






28. The chronology of editing work






29. Where editors juxtapose






30. What is the process of critiquing our work?






31. Editing is the discovery of a __________.






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






33. Everything made upstream flows __________