Cutaway

a cutaway is a shot that interrupts the main action . its either things that are happing at the same time as the main action like (an example from wiki) if the main shot is of a man walking down an alley , the cut way could be a shot of a cat on a nearby bin or a homeless person sleeping in the alleyway.cutaways don't have to create dramatic question just as long as they relate to the main action, for example if you see the clip bellow

you can see in this documentary the editor has used cutaways of the girls laying down and getting a tan, it relates to the main point because its the girls that work as sex workers in the cutaway its not random. they used the cutaway of the girls laying down to show how ordinary these girls are even though they are doing a job which is extra ordinary.