They're called "noddy shots"...
... and you take them to cut away to the interviewer so it doesn't look like the interviewee is just standing there talking pish to no-one (although I suspect we'll see a lot of that over the coming month). The great thing about them is that in a taped interview they let you mask edits in the interviewee's speech - if you just chopped out a bit then they'd jump within the frame. So you cut away to a noddy and back to the subject. The option is to do that pain-in-the-arse dissolve thing where you fade down the audio and back up, as you mix the video from one clip to another and they kind of teleport across the frame. I hate that.
(gordonjcp, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 7:46, 1 reply)

Fucking frame-teleporting cunts.

( Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 8:40, closed)