Tension and Pace: When editing timing is very important especially when creating a sense of tension between characters. Speeding up the process making the shots shorter and more frequent give the audience the understanding that there is tension building up. The use of music can also adds to the tension.
Crosscutting is shot changes, cutting between two scenarios and from character to another showing their reaction so the fragment of each scene will be showed to the audience alternatively.
Reaction shots are typically close up or MCU shots showing the reaction towards the cut from a particular scene by the audience. It adds to the emotional glue between the different shots in a scene through the use of the cutaway edit.
Seamless Editing is where the audience do not realize the editing of the film because they are distracted by all the action on the screen.
Flash back is when the story starts of by going back into time showing the back story, then back to the present time explaining how they character (s) got to where they are now in the present time. Flashback adds more drama to the film and makes it more emotional.
Editing can be used poetically when viewers are left puzzled and has to figure out for themselves what is the purpose of a certain shot, for example putting two unrealated scenes together without explain how they fit as one in order to make us join the dots.
Jump cut is a moment of discontinuity in an edit. It is used to make the audience feel what is happening in the scenes. It is not cutting from one scene to another, instead it 's just moving continuously from one to the other.
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