Relevant Terms to Help with Cutting and Editing my Moving Images

Some of the most important and relevant terms that I'd use when cutting and editing my music video to make it the length wanted it to be are...

• Continuity of Motion. This is when the flow of action from one shot to the next as it is placed on the screen at cut point. Placing the significant action at the end of a shot in the same area of the screen where the significant action will begin the next shot. I would need this in my music video because I'd like my moving images to run smoothly without interruption or breakage.

• Cut. In editing, a single unbroken strip of film.

• Dissolve. A gradual merging of the end of one shot and the beginning of another produced by the superimposition of a face-out onto a fade-in of equal length. I have pointed this out in particularly because this is a common feature in music videos and think it will be relevant to the type of work promo video I shall be producing.

Some more important key words I shall need to take into account when cutting and editing my music video can be found here.