What is the language of editing? : Media Language editing.

• Cut – straight cut : creates a full stop.
  
• Fade : creates change of time or fade into the ending credits.
  
• Wipe
  
• Dissolve
  
• Sound – music – sound effects – diegetic sound
  
• Jump cut
  
• Cut away
  
• Slow motion
  

Editing

There is an old adage that films are edited, not made. Much important work is done in the edit suite. While a good editor may not always be able to salvage a bad film, a bad editor can certainly ruin what might otherwise

• continuity - continuous action shown in sequence
  
• montage - a series of seemingly unrelated shots that the audience must work to connect.
  

Hollywood movies tend to go for continuity editing, a style also known as transparency (ie you don't notice it). Actions flow smoothly from one frame to another, and the audience simply follow the dialogue. Oppositional to this, and the style employed by many art-house films is framed editing, where the audience are continually reminded that they are viewing an artificially created text. Jump cuts, sudden stoppages of sound,

When shots are placed next to each other in a sequence the link between them is known as a transition. The simplest of these is a cut, ie a straight splice from one section of film to another. There are many others - fades, dissolves, wipes, plus those offered by sophisticated digital software.