Chapter 3 - Transition Types (Notes)

Editing Styles and Conventions
-Hollywood Montage & Soviet Montage
-Transition types are the nuts and bolts of editing
L cut/Split edit
- Appear more invisible - Realism - Seemless
- See someone talking cut to other persom to see reaction
- The reaction is half the story
- Cut video but continuous audio - Most popular
- Cut audio but continuous video - Least popluar
Jump Cut
- Background changes
- Audio continuois
- Always an obvious cut
- Cut from one point in time to another
- No transition needed
Wipes
- A convention of Star Wars
- Famous in the 80's
- Jump from one scene to another
- End/start on a static scene, wipe gives sense of movement
- Storybook feeling, turning of the page
- Complete change of scene, completely different area
Cutting for Action
- Screen direction
- Sight lines
- Cutting on the Action
- Illusion of Continuity
- Thematic Pacing and Motivated Edits
- Parallel editing
- Split edit
- Cutaways
- Fades