May 14, 2008

A cutaway is a shot in a video that interrupts the main flow of action to focus on something else, such as a detail that illustrates something being talked about in an interview. Cutaways, which are inserted during editing, add visual information, provide a diversion and serve as a transition between fragments of an interview.

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