The Swish Blog

In film there is a lot of different transitions that can be used. Transitions are important because they make the audience react differently to each of them as they are used as a way of passing time and making it feel like there has been a long time between each of the scenes. Another reason for using film transitions is to convey to the audience of a certain tone or mood. This is essentially important for when it comes to horror movies as they need a certain mood to scare the audience.

The most simple transition is a straight cut which is a where one scene ends and the second scene starts. This transition is important if the scene beforehand is just a filler scene. This type of transition doesn't have much of an effect on the audience because of how simple it is.

A very common transition that is used is the contrast cut where editing a juxtapose of two contrast subjects, for example in the first scene everything is really quiet while in the second scene there is a loud band, this makes for a very intense transition which can sometimes scare the audience, this can only be used through this type of transition and not a gradual transition. The most famous contrast cut is used in The Godfather - The Baptism Murders Scene in this scene the first shot is of the baptism that is taken place where it is all quiet and calm in the next moment the next scene is of the murder shot with loud sounds and bangs using guns.

A match cut is another one which is very common to filmmakers however this has a different reason, this transition is used to hide the transition from the audience this is because the character is covering the camera as they know the cut has happened but they are away of when this happened. Hiding it away from the audience makes them unaware of how it's been done. An example of this is in 'A Space Odyssey' in 2001 where the first shot is of a Gorilla throwing a bone while the second shot is of the bone up in the air.

Finally a fade in/out shot is used either at the start or the end. At the beginning of a film where it cuts to black usually before the title while the fade out occurs before the credits at the end of the scene. The reason why this is used is to highlight that the credits are soon to come. An example of using the fade in is in this opening sequence of 'Six Feet Under.' This is because although they fade to black many times during this sequence they also fade to white, which is something that is really different at unique.

For my version of the Swish blog. I worked with my colleagues Lauren Walke and Olivia Searle. The idea for it was that I would jump and then I would land in different parts of the building. It was quite hard to get the timing right. I think that the timing was the most important thing when it came to this project. The reason for this is because if the timing was off the whole thing would look odd. I think that we kept to a really simple idea that worked effectively because we could edit it to the way we wanted to. 

When it came to the editing all we I had to was cut and razor away some of the clips, the clips were all in order so the only thing that I had to do was make sure that the timing was ok. I think this was one of my most successful projects. It was a good idea to use a simple idea. In the background I used the song 'Jump' I used this because I think it would well with the idea of me jumping. 

Jump - Swish Blog

I really liked this project because although it was simple it worked really effectively. I think that if I were going to do it again I would jump in some other places and maybe do it outdoors so it looked like we had gone further than just in the college. I would try and keep some of the original wild track in it next time because I think that a video like this would look better with more original music than a song. Although the song does work well with the purpose of the video. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_transition -6th November

http://mentalfloss.com/article/21028/5-film-transitions-worth-knowing -6th November

http://www.avclub.com/articles/a-love-once-new-has-now-grown-old-24-memorable-cin,59719/ -6th November

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zs61pakiIY -6th November