Transitions

Transitions

There are many transitions an editor will use through her or his time as an editor. They will use these transitions to combine two or more shots and add to their project. The transition will show how one shot ends and another begins and how they merge together.

• Cut-

The cut is one of the most common used transitions. It is when one shot has finished and is immediately replaced with another. All full length movies involve using cuts, even movies such as 'Rope' or 'Birdman' have well hidden cuts in them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCU6eNU6cck

The cut is the most important transition used in film, it can make one simple shot look completely different depending on what other shot it has been mixed with. Lev Kuleshov, a soviet filmmaker, experimented with shots and made what is now called 'The Kuleshov Effect'. In his experiment Kuleshov found that if he put certain shots together he could achieve different reactions from the audience. He put together a shot of a man with three different shots of subjects, a coffin, a bowl of soup and a pretty woman. When shown to an audience, they remarked on how the man looked sad in the first shot, hungry in the second and lustful in the third.

Alfred Hitchcock-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCAE0t6KwJY

• Dissolve-
A dissolve will be used to show a gradual change from one shot to another. It can be used in many scenarios from dreamlike to note a change of place of time. Older classic movies used this transition often.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTPctDhOCzE


• Fade-

A fade happen most often at the beginning and/or the end of a scene. It will fade from black or white and at the end fade back. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k7DWeR1hfY

• Wipe-

The wipe, most commonly found in the 'Star Wars' films, is when one shot is replaces with a second as it swipes across the screen. Wipes are used for a change of scene or location. There are various types of wipe from, left to right and vice versa, centre wipe, clockwise wipe and many more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGqAu9gj_F0