Principles of Editing: Cut aways
A cutaway in film is a piece of footage that is used to cut away from a particular action for a short amount of time. A typical cutaway is used with the main action scene, showing the audience other plot points happening at the same time. Cutaways are seamlessly placed that the audience watching does not notice the edit. Cutaways are only brief because their use is only to give the audience a little bit more information to the audience. For example, in this scene from Sleepers, four young boys have decided to play a trick on a hot dog vendor in Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan but it sadly goes horribly wrong when they hit a set of stairs leading to the subway. When the boys lost their grip on the hot dog cart we see a cutaway of a man walking to get to the stairs, but then the sequences cuts back to the boys shouting at the man to move. This is a great example of how cutaways can cause drama and suspense because the audience starts to wonder if the man gets hurt, which he sadly does.
A cutaway in film is a piece of footage that is used to cut away from a particular action for a short amount of time. A typical cutaway is used with the main action scene, showing the audience other plot points happening at the same time. Cutaways are seamlessly placed that the audience watching does not notice the edit. Cutaways are only brief because their use is only to give the audience a little bit more information to the audience. For example, in this scene from Sleepers, four young boys have decided to play a trick on a hot dog vendor in Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan but it sadly goes horribly wrong when they hit a set of stairs leading to the subway. When the boys lost their grip on the hot dog cart we see a cutaway of a man walking to get to the stairs, but then the sequences cuts back to the boys shouting at the man to move. This is a great example of how cutaways can cause drama and suspense because the audience starts to wonder if the man gets hurt, which he sadly does.
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