Dana E. Glauberman is an American film editor from California who has been editing a few of Jason Reitman film.  She studied at the University of California and worked for several years on the editing crews on a couple of…

Cutting on action – the most used cut, simply creates a logical sequence of action where one image simultaneously replaces the other. ‘Battleship Potemkin’ (1925) Sergei Eisenstein Battleship Potemkin is full of simple and obvious cuts to use as an…

THE ESTABLISHING SHOT – lets us know where the action is taking place and is usually a wide shot of a forest, building or any other area like that. Here is an example of an establishing shot in the opening…

Continuity editing is the  arrangement of shots in a way that allows the actions flow together giving the illusion of narrative continuity. The goal of continuity editing is to make the work of the editor as invisible as possible. The…

Used to be known as just ‘video editing’, linear editing is a more traditional approach to video editing. It is a process of selecting, arranging and modifying the images or sound recorded which involves cutting the film tape permanently. Apart…