Cuts and Transitions

Research the following cuts and transitions.

Explain what the cut or transition is 

Explain why it is used 

Give at least one example from a film or TV text where it has been used.

Standard cut:
A standard cut is when you cut from clip to clip, without any transition.Or when you cut from the end of one clip to the beginning of another.

Fade to/from black:
The term fade to /from black is used when transitioning from a blank image.Creating a smooth transition.

Wipe:
A wipe is a type of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another.It is also commonly used in quick camera pans in action sequences, to make a cut invisible.

Dissolve:
Dissolve is a gradual transition from one image to another. It is used to bridge two scenes together.

Whip Pan:
A whip pan is when the camera has a panning movement fast enough to give a blurred picture.It is commonly used as a transition between shots, and can indicate the passage of time or pace of action.

Cutaways:

Cutaways take the audiences focus away from the main action or subject.These are used as transition pieces to give the audience a view of what is happening outside of the main character's environment.In this scene from The Quick and the Dead, Sam Raimi cuts away from the gunfighters to the clock on the tower which creates dramatic tension.

Jump Cut:
A jump cut is when the clip has an abrupt transition from one scene to another.This type of edit gives the effect of jumping forwards in time.

Cutting on action:

Cutting on action is when the editor cuts from one shot to another and matches the action from the shot.By using cutting on action it allows the scene to flow more instead of pausing.

Cross cut:

Cross cut is also known as parallel editing, this is where you cut between two different scenes that are happening at the same time in different spaces.This allows the audience to see the two different stories at once.For example in the film Inception we  see two different scenes happening at the same time.

Graphic match or match cut:

The match cut is the technique of matching the movement of two opposite environments together.This allows the audience to move from one scene to another effectively.In the film A Space Odyssey a bone is thrown in the air and as it stars to come down it is then replace with a spaceship floating through space.

What an L-cut means is that you are hearing the audio from the previous shot,even though we've moved on to another shot.The L-cut is used so that the audio from the preceding scene continues to play over the footage from the following scene, allowing the audience to visualizes a dialogue.

(Clip for L-cut and J-cut)

A J-Cut is the opposite of the L-Cut (We hear the audio before we see the video.You can give your audience additional visual information to go along with the dialogue that is being fed to the audience.