Unit16Task8 AS1: Transition and Effect

Dissolves

Dissolving is fading 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 dissolve shot. This is normally used is the film maker wants to show a connection between two characters, objects or places.

Fades

Fading is the gradual darkening or lightening of an image until it becomes black and white. The shot will fade until the whole screen is only black and white. This is used to indicate the end of a particular section of time within a narrative. 

Wipes

Wiping is when one image is pushed off the screen by another. The image can slide left or right. it is more common for the image to be pushed off to the left hand side as this movement as this movement is more consistent with the sense of time moving forward. This techniques is used to signal a movement between two different locations that are experiencing the same time.  

Graphic Match

Following the Action

This is when there is movement, or in an action scene, the camera would follow the action or event that is taking place. For example, in the fight scene from the film, Mr & Mrs Smith the camera rotates between them fighting instead of staying in one angle.


Multiple points of view

This is when the characters are showing each side of the a particular point of view. When one character will show his/her point of view (what they are seeing) and then will change to the secondary character and do the same thing. This happens in this extract from iron man.





Shot Variation

This is when a shot is uninterrupted by editing and the shot distance changes. The shot can be either static or mobile but it must be continuous motion. For example, a shot may begin as a long or wide shot and the end as a close-up shot. In this example from the Matrix it starts off as a long shot, then the camera moves into a circular motion shot, and ends in a mid-shot.

Evaluation - For our transition and effect we effectively used manipulation of diegetic time and space of the future. In this film we used three characters, Shemi was psychic who was looking into my future to see if i would hurt myself before a party net week. The clip goes black and white when it goes into the future and then dissolves back into present time. I think this technique was used effectively because, it shows that we understood how to use the technique properly and it links well with the theme of our film.