Cutting on action

The act of cutting on action is when a cut is made to the video during the movement of a character. The video then plays a clip at a different angle continuing the action that character was doing in the previous clip. By using this technique, two shots are able to be seamlessly blended together that shows the brain a full action. One thing to keep in mind when cutting on action is to not cut too early or too late. The cut needs to happen at a precise moment for the effect to work, or else the viewer will notice the jump from clip to clip. Another thing that should be noted about cutting on action is to know before hand how the character was moving. If you shoot a shot of a character running up to a door, then cut to another shot of the character opening the door, the second clip shouldn't be the character slowly opening the door. When cutting on action, the actions should flow from shot to shot seamlessly.