Negative cutting

Are you familiar with making a puzzle? It's when you take a big picture and cut it into smaller pieces, then put it back together again. Negative cutting is kind of like making a puzzle, but with a movie or a film.

When people make a movie, they use a camera to film different scenes. These scenes are recorded onto a long roll of film. Before the movie can be shown to other people, the film needs to be put into the right order and edited together. Negative cutting is the process of taking all of those different scenes that were filmed and putting them into the right order.

To do this, a person called a negative cutter has to take the long roll of film and cut it into smaller pieces. Each of these pieces is a different scene from the movie. Then, the negative cutter has to put these scenes in the right order and tape them back together. This makes a new long roll of film that has all of the scenes in the correct order.

Negative cutting is very important for making sure that a movie or film is shown in the right way. It's like putting together a puzzle - if one piece is in the wrong place, the whole picture will look weird! By making sure that the scenes are in the right order, negative cutting makes it possible for people to watch a movie and understand the story that the filmmakers wanted to tell.