Film Making Tips 101 Clean Entrances / Exits

An editor will love you if you allow each scene to be played out in it’s entirety with clean entrances and exits. This will allow for the editor to choose when to jump from shot to shot and help them do it seamlessly. The term clean entrance/exit refers to a subject(s) entering a frame, doing whatever they’re there to do and then completely leaving. As the shot begins they’re not present, after a couple of seconds they enter, the scene takes place and they leave completely.

This also helps when matching a variety of different shots, if the entrances are clean; the shots can play out entirely and be placed together without having to worry as much if they’ll fit.

The rule here applies to anything moving through the frame. For any sort of editing purposes, clean entrances and exits are extremely handy and will help propel the flow of your project.