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Test your basic knowledge |

Video Editing Basic Vocab

Instructions:
  • Answer 33 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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 is the rule of 6? (in order)






2. Match Cut = __________






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






4. What are some examples of shadow cuts?






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






6. What is the process of critiquing our work?






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






8. Everything made upstream flows __________






9. Where editors view their work






10. Where editors gather assets






11. Where editors juxtapose






12. The chronology of editing work






13. Jump Cut = __________






14. Editing is __________.






15. What does coverage mean in editing?






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






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






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






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






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






21. Raison D'etre means


22. Every shot:






23. What are the rules of engagement?






24. Editing is the discovery of a __________.






25. What is the number one prime directive?






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






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






28. Production should be the __________.






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






30. A creative solution to a technological problem






31. Where editors audition assets






32. What are shadow cuts?






33. 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.






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