The cut is a basic form of continuity editing and can be used in a variety of different ways across all types of media as a way of moving from one scene to another.
Compare Scene Transition.
Tropes:
- Age Cut: A cut to a character several ages older.
- Ambulance Cut: A sudden cut to a character in the hospital or on an ambulance to such.
- Answer Cut: A character asks a question, and the next scene shows the answer.
- Anti Climax Cut
- Blade-of-Grass Cut
- Body Wipe: Part of someone's body fills the screen and dissolves/cuts to the next scene.
- Charge-into-Combat Cut
- Conversation Cut
- Cut Apart: A cutaway reveals a Switching P.O.V. wasn't about the same situation.
- Cutaway Gag: A character mentions an unseen past event or a hypothetical situation. After that, a brief scene is shown depicting what the character was talking about.
- Cutting Back to Reality: A hallucination or fantasy is witnessed—only for a cut to reveal what's actually happening.
- Description Cut: A character mentions someone will do something, and the next scene shows them doing the complete opposite.
- Distant Reaction Shot
- Exposition Cut
- Flashback Cut
- Funeral Cut
- Gilligan Cut: A character refuses to do something and the next scene shows them doing exactly what they said they wouldn't do.
- Hard Cut
- "I Know What We Can Do" Cut
- Ironic Echo Cut: Someone addresses a subject, and the scene cuts to someone else addressing the same subject in another manner.
- Jump Cut
- Match Cut: The scene cuts/dissolves to a similarly displayed lifeform or object.
- Multi-Take Cut: The exact same action filmed from various angles then edited together with Jump Cuts.
- Next Thing They Knew
- Reaction Shot: Character says or does something and the camera cuts away to another character to show them react.
- Relax-o-Vision: A form of censorship where disturbing scenes are replaced with footage of something more pleasant.
- Repeat Cut: The same action, line, or brief exchange is shown more than once in immediate repetition
- Smash Cut: An abrupt cut from one scene to the next.
- Sneeze Cut
- Stop Trick
- Switching P.O.V.
- Twisted Echo Cut: The conversation cuts to another just like it, though related to something else.
- Two Scenes, One Dialogue: Cut between two or more characters talking about the same thing.
