Montage is a film editing technique where a series of short shots are arranged chronologically to supress space, time, as well as information. This particular term ‘montage’ has been used in several contexts. In French, the word “montage” applied to cinema simply stands for ‘editing’. Gradually the meaning changed and now it refers to the sequence …
Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story’s primary sequence of events to fill in the crucial backstory. On the contrary, a flashforward reveals events that will occur in the future. A flashback or flashforward is an interruption shot between the scenes that takes you forward or backwards in time. It also takes …
Double exposures or even multiple exposures for that matter, refer to capturing two or more images on a single frame. It works by layering or morphing one image onto another by not allowing the camera to advance the film to the next frame. By taking a picture without advancing to the next frame, the same frame is exposed more …
The use of cut-ins and cutaways can mark a lapse of time or they are used to create or enhance the mood of a film. Cutaway shots are scenes that as the name suggests, cut away from the action. The cut-in shots and cutaway shots are one among the many editing techniques, the both of them are used to fill …
An axial cut is a type of jump cut, where the camera suddenly moves closer to or further away from its subject, along an invisible line drawn straight between the camera and the subject. While a plain jump cut typically involves a temporal discontinuity, an axial cut is a way of maintaining the illusion of …
Cuts are the most basic yet important segment of post production or video editing process. There are different cuts, each with its own characteristics and usage.
As per the 180 degree rule, the subjects or objects inside the frame are considered to be positioned on an imaginary axis and the camera can move in a semi circle on one side of the axis.
The 30-degree rule states that the camera should move at least 30 degrees in relation to the subject between successive shots of the same subject. The camera should move and stay on one side of the subject to follow the 180-degree rule. In order to make something good, there are rules that one should follow, doesn’t really …
Usage of 30-degree rule-following different aspects of film making. Read More »
One picture says a thousand words, and to be able to communicate properly, the picture needs to be clicked in a way that suits the emotion it wants to incite in the viewers mind. same goes for video making.
Exposition- as the word suggests is the explanation of something, when used on cinema it is often used to give the audience the context about a scenario, it can be achieved through dialogues, flashbacks, songs narrations etcetera.
