From the course: Video Journalism: Shooting Techniques
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Shooting cutaways - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Video Journalism: Shooting Techniques
Shooting cutaways
A cutaway is a shot that literally cuts away from the current shot and takes viewers to another shot, or covers up with would have been a jump cut, and a jump cut is an edit that causes a disconnect in viewers' minds. There are three instances when cutaways come in handy. In interviews where you need to edit together two brief sound bites from the same person, you use a cutaway at the edit point to ensure the interviewee doesn't look like he suddenly moved. If you have two shots edited together that are so similar that viewers might not notice that you've gone from one shot to another, a cutaway, usually a tight shot, helps make that clear. Cutaway helps you transition from one distinctly different scene to the next. Usually, in this case you use a tight shot as the transitional cutaway, then go to a wide shot in a new location. I shot several examples for this course. Here are few. (Female speaker: But then the core will be white.) This is a cutaway for a typical interview scene…
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