Sentence:  If , in preparing that <WSD>shot</WSD> for the inevitable showing to your friends , you interrupt the sequence to paste in a few frames of the child 's grandmother watching this event , you have begun to be an artist in film ; you are employing the basic technique of film ; you are cutting . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film