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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. Where editors view their work






2. What does coverage mean in editing?






3. What are shadow cuts?






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






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






6. Raison D'etre means

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7. Match Cut = __________






8. Where editors audition assets






9. What are the rules of engagement?






10. What are some examples of shadow cuts?






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






12. A creative solution to a technological problem






13. Everything made upstream flows __________






14. What is the number one prime directive?






15. Editing is __________.






16. Jump Cut = __________






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






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






19. Every shot:






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






21. What is the process of critiquing our work?






22. 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.






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






24. Where editors gather assets






25. Where editors juxtapose






26. Production should be the __________.






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






28. The chronology of editing work






29. Editing is the discovery of a __________.






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






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






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






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