Shot Transitions!

Welcome back! In this post, I experimented with transition effects, creating 3 different videos, each comprised of 2 clips with a different transition effect.

Transition One: Fade

In this clip, I used a fade transition to cut from a POV shot at my school to a POV shot in my bedroom. I think the fade shot works really well here, as it changes from such a bright scene to a dark and unsettling environment, indicating that a change in place and time has occurred.

Transition Two: Dissolve

In this clip, I used a dissolve transition to cut from an establishing wide shot to a close shot of my classmate. Although unexpected, the transition still works as intended, showing a change from an introduction to the scene to the main plot.

Transition Three: Eyeline Match

In this clip, I used a cut transition with a twist. I used a match called an Eyeline match, where one shot shows a subject looking off-screen and the second shot being what the subject was looking at. Although the subject in this scene is unusual, the transition works well, especially with the reveal of what the subject was staring at.

Experience

At first, I had no idea where to begin with making transitions. The closest thing I had made to a transition in the past was PowerPoint transitions, which wasn't going to work well at all for this post. That is until I found out how to use a software called iMovie from a friend. When I put my shots into iMovie, it automatically made a transition between the two shots, and I was able to change it however I wanted. This made the editing process over a thousand times easier than I thought it was going to be. I had ideas for filming, where I'd use a combination of new shots and old shots to create some interesting twists, so that was not an issue at all for me at the start. Editing would have taken me a long time, but thanks to iMovie being so easy to use, I was able to compile all of these clips in under 10 minutes.