cutaways
Brief editing diversions
Cutaways are coat fronts that angle away from the waist, creating a tapered silhouette—the formal morning coat is the classic example.
In film and television, a cutaway is a shot that briefly interrupts the main action to show something else: a reaction, a detail, a clock on the wall.
The technique provides context or builds tension.
In animation, particularly sitcoms like *Family Guy*, cutaways are brief comedic scenes triggered by a character's remark: This is worse than that time I...
Assembled sequence of images
- spliceJoin end to end
- juxtapositionAdjacent contrasting placement
- transitionChange from one state
- sequenceOrdered succession of elements
insert · footage · continuity · pacing · timing · post-production · assembly · editor
Involuntary past memory
- backstoryCharacter's past narrative
- subplotSubordinate narrative strand
- reactionResponse to stimulus
- asideBrief theatrical digression
digression · interruption · foreshadowing · reveal · exposition · context · meanwhile · interlude
View through interior
- diagramSimplified explanatory sketch
- schematicSimplified technical diagram
- blueprintDetailed technical drawing
- sectionalSofa made of units
anatomy · dissection · layering · rendering · slice · profile · transparency · see-through
montage
Assembled sequence of images
- spliceJoin end to end
- juxtapositionAdjacent contrasting placement
- transitionChange from one state
sequence · insert · footage · continuity · pacing · timing · post-production · assembly · editor · storyboard
flashback
Involuntary past memory
aside · digression · interruption · foreshadowing · reveal · exposition · context · meanwhile · interlude · vignette
cross-section
View through interior
- diagramSimplified explanatory sketch
- schematicSimplified technical diagram
- blueprintDetailed technical drawing
sectional · anatomy · dissection · layering · rendering · slice · profile · transparency · see-through · framework
tailoring
Custom clothing adjustment
coat · vest · menswear · formalwear · bespoke · sartorial · lapel · vent · detail · revealing
- video clipstrailers, stock footage, scenes, B-roll, previews
- visual aidspicture, pictures, photo, photos, image
- visual elementsdiagrams, illustrations, symbols, charts, graphs
- technical drawingsblueprints, technical drawing, schematics, engineering drawing, diagrams
- documentary techniquesinterviews, narration, voiceover, voice-over, voice over
- journalismreporters, interview, editors, student editors, school paper