Advanced Editor: Structuring Time

Cuts and Transitions

Terms

• Montage
• Editing, selecting and piecing individual clips and shots together to create a fast paced continuous clip or to show the progression of time
• Compresses time of clips
• Shows large amount of information

• Jump cut
• An unexpected transition from one clip to another 
• Two visually similar shots editing together
• Shows a jump from one to the next shot

• Time lapse
• Taking a sequence of clips at set intervals to record changes that take place slowly over time
• At normal speed the action is way faster
• Can be used to manipulate time - passing of time

• Split screen
• Division on the screen
• 2 Separate clips are displayed
• Usually shows simultaneous action

• Parallel editing
• 2 or more scenes happening at the same time
• Shows different locations

• Smash cut
• Clips changing into a different scene with no warning 
• Sudden  transitions

• Speed ramping
• Changing the speed of the scene regularly whether it's fast or slow

• Superimposition
• Image or video placed on top of an existing image or video
• Could be used to convey the passing of time

• Whip Pan
• The camera moving or rotating very fast it creates a blurred picture
• Quick transition from one place to another

• Wipe by cut
• One shot is replaced by another by travelling from one side of the frame to another (with a special shape)
• Page being turned in a graphic novel

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• Visual Match
• One shot changes to another shot by having the two shots relate by using an action, subject or it's subject matter
• Good way to create a connection between two shots

Day in 60 seconds video

Timelapse
0:00 - Scene of the sky from night to day time

Jump Cut
0:01 - Alarm Clock - shows what time it is (6am)
0:03 - Waking up
0:04 - Getting out of bed

Montage
0:05 - 0:06 - Him getting ready for a run
0:07 - 0:12 - Running shot in different angels and places

Stop Motion
0:14 - 0:15 - Showing each ingredient

Time-lapse
0:15 - 0:17 - Time-lapse of coffee making + adding toppings

Jump Cut
0:18 - 0:19 - Empty bowl to a full bowl of cat food

Time-lapse
0:20 - Getting ready for college - speeds up time

Jump Cut
0:21 - 0:26 - Driving, getting to a destination

Jump Cut
0:28 - Jump cuts of him walking to college - Keeps audience attention
0:30 - 0:32 - Working on desk

Montage
0:33 - 0:34 - Getting the supplies he needs - short clips of everything

Wipe by cut
0:35 - 0:36 - Heading to different destinations

Jump Cut
0:38 - 0:41 - Break

Wipe by cut
0:42 - Different destination again

Jump Cuts + Zooms
0:45 - 0:46 - Shows the time how its passing by fast

Montage
0:47 - 0:49 - Driving - Speeds up time

Jump Cut
0:50 - 0:52

Match Cut
0:54 - Reading different books

Jump Cut
0:56

Split Screen + Time-lapse 
0:57 - Doing work, typing - Speeding up

Jump Cut
0:59

Montage
1:01 - 1:02 - Getting ready for bed shows clips of what he does

Time-lapse + Fade away
1:03 - Night time - shows how time passed by

Overall

All the cuts follow the beats of the music, where the accent of the beats are loud and fast the cuts and techniques used were mostly time-lapses or montages. He used jump cuts to speed up the time and show clips of what he does in a day.