Match on action

The filming technique ‘match on action’ is used to show two different views of the same action. The movement is matched across the separately filmed shots so that the motion seems to be carried out with no interruption. For example one shot could show a person walking up to a door and reaching out their hand to the handle, the next shot could be a close up of the hand twisting the handle causing the door to open which would then be followed by a shot of the person walking through the door into another room. All the shots are cut together to make it appear as one swift movement.