Editing techniques(:

During the lesson this week, we was discussing some new editing techniques and the vocabulary used. For this blog i have to pick 3 of the editing techniques and explain what they are and how i would use them in a scene.

Editing techniques
The fist one i have picked is Eyeline match. Eyeline match is where you focus the camera with a close up on the two characters facing each other and talking then you swiftly move the camera to show what there looking at. I would use this technique in a scene during school. i would have a group of people talking about something/someone for a while and when they are then looking and pointing at that someone or something i would swiftly move the camera around to show the audience what they are looking at.

The second technique i chose was crosscutting. Crosscutting is where you are trying to show two relating scenes happening at the same time, you would do this by showing one scene and then cutting back to show another scene.. but the two scenes have to relate to each other in some way. I would use this in a scene where theres a group of people sitting at a table talking to each other then they starting asking each other where their friend is as they havent seen them all day so they start talking about it and whilst they are doing this i would cut back to another scene showing where there friend is and what she/he is doing, but i would make it look like the two scenes were happening at the same time.

The third technique i chose was jump cut. Jump cut is where you confuse the audience by showing one scene then jumping straight to another scene using non-continuity. I would use this in a scene showing two people outside in a car talking/driving then i would quickly cut yo another scene showing them inside a house or a shop or something, just to confuse the audience.