Match of action is an editing technique for continuity editing in which one shot cuts to the next shot portraying the action of the subject in the first shot.
By using this shot it creates the impression of a sense of continuity, the action is carried through creating a visual image which draws the audience’s attention away from slight cutting or continuity issues. This action portrays a continuous sense of the same action rather than matching to separate videos.
The shot reverse shot is an editing technique used during actors having a conversation or simply them looking a each other or objects.
A shot showing what the character is looking at is followed by the reverse angle shot of the character themselves looking at it or the other character looking back at them for example.
Shot reverse often ties links well with the 180 degrees rule to retain continuity by not disordering the audience’s sense of location of the characters in the shots.
The 180 degrees rule is a filming guideline that participants in a scene should have the same left-right relationship to one and other, with filming only taking place within the 180 degrees angle in which this is maintained during a conversation for example.
By using this it allows the audience to have a greater sense of location of the scene in terms of what may be off-screen in some shots, for example in shot reverse shots.
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