Cutaway

Cutaway is a shot that cuts from the current action, Its like a secendary activity that is happening at the same for an example; when woman and man having a fight in the living room and then it cuts with someone walking with the dog. Sometimes they use cutawaays to get rid of unwanted frames or covering a cut.

here's a clip from Panroma about BP oil drill. In this clip, you will see cutaways especially in the interviews when its cutaway to reconstruction etc. They use cutaways to try illustate on what they are talking about