Match Cutting Definition and Example

Match Cutting Definition and Example

Match cutting are any cuts that emphasizes spatio-temporal continuity and it is the basis for continuity editing. It is a cut within a scene that makes sense spatially. This can be between two different objects, two different spaces or two different compositions in which an object in two shots graphically match.  

This is a clip showing you what match cutting is and this clip is a very good example because of how the scene cuts each time to another scene. For example the snow coming down fast, once it hits the camera, the scene moves onto people in the club and it is very clever how that can happen.