From the course: Essential Technical Aspects of Animation
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Fades, dissolves, and cuts
From the course: Essential Technical Aspects of Animation
Fades, dissolves, and cuts
- [Instructor] Now, I'll talk about different ways to transition between different shots. There aren't that many ways you can go from one shot to another, but it's important to know the main ones. So this will be the first time you open up, you watch a movie, or you cut to a new sequence. It's a fade in from black, usually. Occasionally, people will use fade from white. The TV show "Six Feet Under" loved to do fade to white when people died. That was a different way of using the same technique,. But it's a fade, and it means some time has passed. We've changed the setting of the story to somewhere new, or we've begun a story. And the other technique is a dissolve. A dissolve often means a short amount of time later. It could be just a moment, or it could be five minutes, 10 minutes, whatever is relevant to the story. It's also a soft way to transition into the scene rather than a hard cut. This kind of transition is a…
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Aspect ratios9m 34s
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Perspective: Introduction4m 30s
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Perspective: Intermediate1m 54s
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Long shot, medium, and close-up4m 44s
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Pans, trucks, and zooms5m 24s
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Fades, dissolves, and cuts3m 54s
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Cheating orbits2m 3s
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When to start a pan1m 39s
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Strobing3m 38s
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Lighting scenes4m 10s
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Cheating depth with color and tone8m 18s
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Cheating depth of field with blurs4m 53s
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Cheating depth with motion3m 11s
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