Match on Action- an editing technique for continuity edting in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject in the first shot. The action carrying through creates a 'visual bridge' which draws the viewers attention away from slight cutting of continuity issues. This is not a graphic match or match cut, it portrays a continuous sense of the same action rather than matching two seperate things.
Shot reverse shot- a continuity editing technique used in conversations or simply characters looking at each other or objects. A shot showing what the character is looking at is followed by a reverse angle shot of the charcter themselves looking at it, or of the other character looking back at them, for example. This shot does not distort the audiences sense of location of the characters in the shot.
180 Degree rule- a basic guideline that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. This allows the audience to have a greater sense of the location in the scene in terms of what may be off-screen in some shots, for example in shot reverse shots.
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