Task 12– Transitions and Effects

Style of Editing
The movement from one shot to the next is called a transition. Different transitions suggest different ideas to the audience. It is therefore really important to choose the right one.
Straight cut
A straight cut is the most common and invisible form of transition. one shot moves instantaneously to the next without attracting the audience's attention. Straight cuts help to retain reality. They are used in continuity editing as they do not break the viewers suspension of disbelief.
Dissolves
A dissolve fades one shot off the screen while another shot is fading in. The audience will be able to see both shots at the mid-point of the shot. Dissolves suggest that the shots are connected in some way. It might be two characters, places or objects. It might suggest that some time has passed between the two shots.




Fades
A fade is a bit like a dissolve but instead of dissolving one shot into another. A fade is gradual darkening or lightening of an image until the screen becomes black or white. A fade indicates the start or end of a particular section of time within the narrative.
Wipes
A wipe is quite an unusual transition. It is when one image is pushed off the screen by another. Images can be pushed in any direction but it is more common for the image to be pushed off the left-hand side. This movement is more consistent with the sense of time moving forward. A wipe signals is audience that they are being shown different locations that are experiencing the same time. A visual equivalent of saying 'meanwhile'.

Graphic match
A graphic match is a very specialized type of transition. it is not something an editor adds between two shots but more a decision about which two shots to put next to each other. It tells the audience that there is a very important link between whatever it is they are seeing in the two shots.

However, we there are effects and we can add colours or filter for the audience to get a different sense or different time zone and the graphic can link with the clip. For example ‘The Wizard of Oz’ we see when the hurricane hit Kansas and then Dorothy woke up and we see instantly that the colour changed this was done in order to show a change of time in the scene. Furthermore, when using time and speed, this is when a film clip is speed up to represent a big change of speed and time. For example the film ‘Time Machine’, this technique was used which will include having to film two of the same shot for it to represent the sun moving after period of time.