Cut: When 2 different pieces of video are spliced together in order to ‘cut’ from one to another.

Fade: When one piece of video/black or white screen gradually becomes more opaque and turns into another video or into a black/white screen

Dissolve: When the image/scene on screen gradually becomes translucent and the next scene becomes more opaque until only the next scene can be seen

Wipe: The scene gets wiped off screen and replaced by the following one

Flashback: The scene cuts back to an event that’s already happened, usually used in order to add to the plot

Shot-Reverse Shot: The scene cuts from one image to the apposing one then back to the original. For example: cutting from person A eating in café, to someone walking into the café [the camera is where Person A is], before cutting back to person A

Cross-Cutting: The video cuts between two different scenes happening simultaneously but in different locations

Eye-Line Match: When a character looks off screen and the image that follows is what they’re looking at

Graphic Match: When the scene begins with either a similar shape or colour that the previous scene ended with

Match on Action: When a scene starts with the same action that the previous scene ended with