تعريف cross-cutting في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.
Switching back and forth between two or more scenes Example - woman nears a waterfall in a boat and a man galloping on a horse Cross-cutting would create PARALLEL ACTION, time, and space Excitement and tension can be increased by shortening the shots and accelerating the rhythm of the cross-cutting
the alternating of shots between two or more scenes usually in different locations, thereby suggesting that they are taking place at the same time Cross-cutting is a key to building tension in chase scenes by switching back and forth between the pursuer and the pursued Cross-cutting was employed in film-making as early as Porter's The Great Train Robbery (1903) and D W Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916)