The Shot & the Edit• Most passages of film can be reduced to just twogrammatical components: the shot (鏡頭) and theedit(剪接).• The shot is completed inside the camera and is themost fundamental grammatical unit of the cinema.– The shot is a single piece of film, no matter how longor short, without any cuts, exposed continuously.– As soon as it is stopped in the camera, or physicallycut on the editing table, the shot comes to an end.• The edit is the order and way the shots are puttogether.– The edit is completed outside the camera, nearlyalways after the photography is complete.