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Article Comment – Don't Know a Cutaway from a Cross-Cut? This Video Breaks Down Edit-Speak

This is the second video I've come across that gets "cutaway" wrong. A cutaway cuts *away* from the main action (CUT TO: SEAGULLS); an "insert" is a detail (CUT TO: FINGER ON THE TRIGGER) contained within the main action. This is also the second tube tutorial I've seen that has used a shot of someone looking at something out of frame and calling the cut to what they are looking at a "cutaway": it's not -- if it's from the character's real or imagined perspective (point-of-view) it's a POV shot. Also, a flash-back or flash-forward is not a cutaway. Both inserts and cutaways exist within the "now" of the scene.

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