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The Technique of Film Editing

OPTICAL. Any device carried out by the optical department of a laboratory requiring the use of the optical

pirnter, e.g., dissolve, fade, wipe.

OPTICAL PRINTER. Apparatus for enabling images from one fi lm to be photographed on to another fi lm

by means of a lens, used in making reduction prints and for special effects and trick work.

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PAN. To rotate the camera about its vertical axis during a shot.

PANNING SHOT. Shot taken with a panning camera.

PARALLEL ACTION. Device of narrative construction in which the development of two pieces of action

is represented simultaneously by showing fi rst a fragment of one, then a fragment of the other, and so on

alternately. See CROSS-CUTTING.

PLAN-SEQUENCE. A long and usually complex shot involving much camera movement during which a

whole scene is shot in one take without cuts.

PLAY-BACK. Reproduction of a sound-track in a studio during shooting to enable action or additional

sound or both to be synchronised with it.

POST-SYNCHRONISATION. Recording and adding sound to a picture after the picture itself has been

shot.

PRINT. Positive copy of a fi lm.

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RELATIONAL EDITING. Editing of shots to suggest association of ideas between them.

RE-RECORD. To make a sound record from one or more other sound records; especially to make a single

sound-track from the several component tracks of a fi lm.

RE-TAKE. Repetition of a take.

RE-WIND, RE-WINDER. Apparatus for re-winding fi lm.

ROUGH CUT. First assembly of a fi lm which the editor prepares from the selected takes, joining them in

the order planned in the script but leaving fi ner points of timing and editing to a later stage.

RUSHES. Prints of takes which are made immediately after a day’s shooting so that they can be viewed on

the following day.

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SET-UP. Camera position.

SLOW CUTTING. Cutting and joining of shots so lengthy that they follow each other in slow succession

on the screen.