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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. Editing is the discovery of a __________.






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






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






4. Where editors view their work






5. Jump Cut = __________






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






7. Every shot:






8. What is the process of critiquing our work?






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






10. What are some examples of shadow cuts?






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






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






13. What does coverage mean in editing?






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






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






16. The chronology of editing work






17. Match Cut = __________






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






19. Where editors audition assets






20. Production should be the __________.






21. Everything made upstream flows __________






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






23. A creative solution to a technological problem






24. Where editors gather assets






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






26. Editing is __________.






27. Where editors juxtapose






28. What are shadow cuts?






29. What are the rules of engagement?






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






31. What is the number one prime directive?






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. Raison D'etre means