Editing

MATCHING - The relationship between shots can be clarified if shots are matched according to action, subject, or subject matter. Match cutting ensures that there is a spatial-visual logic between the differently positioned shots within a scene.

GRAPHIC MATCHING - The involves a smooth visual transfer from one shot to the next. For example in 'Schindlers List' (a film about the holocaust), the film opens with a modern day celebration of Jewish passover, as the ceremonial candles burn out, the smoke signal dissolves into smoke from a train taking jews to the concentration camps highlighting the start of the holocaust.

COMPLICATION SHOTS - This is the term used to describe a series of shots spliced together to give a quick impression of a place.  For example, the opening of 'The Breakfast Club' uses a complication sequence of shots to establish the school to the audience.

MONTAGE - A rapid succession of shots juxtaposing images so that the overall effect is greater than the individual parts. For example, the training montage from 'Rocky'