Match on Action Shot

A match on action shot is when the editor cuts from one view of a character to another view without changing the scene. The action will most likely have to been filmed twice but edited to look like one seamless action, creating a flow.

Example:
In this shot from Bringing Up Baby, Susan is seeing lighting a cigarette. In filming after the first take the director would have moved the camera and she would have had to re-light the match as the others had to react their lines from another angle or the scene would have been shot from two cameras at once to save time.

For my opening there will be little interaction between two or more characters by I can use this when my main character is performing a task. This means with one camera, I will have to reshoot scenes from different angles.