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Shot transitions

Shot transitions

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Shot transitions

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- [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 would use fade from light. The TV show "Six Feet Under" love to do fade to white when people died. Uh that was, uh, a different way of using the same technique where it is a fade and it means some time has past, 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. Its also a soft way to transition into the scene rather than a hard cut. This kind of transition it a match and cut we're going from character to character and really…

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