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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. Raison D'etre means

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2. What are the rules of engagement?






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






4. What are shadow cuts?






5. Production should be the __________.






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






7. What are some examples of shadow cuts?






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






9. Everything made upstream flows __________






10. A creative solution to a technological problem






11. Every shot:






12. Jump Cut = __________






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






14. Editing is the discovery of a __________.






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






16. What is the process of critiquing our work?






17. Where editors juxtapose






18. What is the number one prime directive?






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






20. Where editors audition assets






21. The chronology of editing work






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






23. Match Cut = __________






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






25. What does coverage mean in editing?






26. Where editors gather assets






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






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






29. Editing is __________.






30. Where editors view their work






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






32. 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.






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