By Russie Miessi

This is when one object blends into another with the shot following. An example of this is if steam from a kettle blend into steam to a train.

Match on action is when one shot is showing the character reaching for something off screen and the next shot shows what they’ve reached for. An example of this is when a person reaches for the door and the next shot show the door opening from a different angle.

This is when you have the character looks over at something off screen and the following shot shows what they’re looking at.

Another name for this is called Parallel Editing. This is when two different actions are taking place in the same time and the shot cuts from both scenes. A good example of this is if a child is playing with a ball and the ball rolls onto the road. Then the next shot would cut the careless driver on the phone. The next shot would cut the child running for the ball. The following show (increasingly getting faster in cuts to create tension) back to the driver being careless and so on till the both scenes join with the driver smashing into the child.

This shot is commonly used to introduce a setting. This is so the viewer recognised where the action is about to take place. Crane shots/aerial shots and long shots are frequently used as stabling shots.