Re: [Avid-L2] Editors Periodic Table of Transitions

Though I rarely use pushes - just a few times in my whole career - it sticks out to me that the reason I used them was to kind of indicate either a variety of options (for example, here are all the different ways to do this or represent this), or to indicate variations on a theme. The pushes are better than any other option because if the shots are just variations, then dissolving or even wiping can look strange because there's so little change, though just cutting between them is the obvious "non-push" solution.

Honestly, I didn't think there WERE any other transitions in docs other than cuts and dissolves! :-)

Kiki wipes are the sign that your documentary is really a mockumentary.

Morphs - other than the hidden types, you've mentioned that you sometimes use - would be to indicate change over time... like from the childhood of a mass murderer to his fully realized self. Or sometimes to indicate that something isn't as it appears - morphing between the "smiling boyscout" look and the "deranged killer" look.

What are swish pans and smash zooms for? To jolt the audience into realizing the magnitude of change? Do transitions have to signal any specific emotion? What about to simply create energy and a visual style?

Steve Hullfish
contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"

On Oct 24, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Steve wrote:

> Over the past year and a half I have been cutting three of the four hours for the special Nova series Fabric of the Cosmos. You can see a trailer here:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDHOLAACYv0
>
> But now, as I am not working around the clock, I have turned my eye once again to the book on documentary editing.
>
> One part that I always wanted to include was a periodic table of transitions and their emotional translations. For example. Dissolves are contemplative, Wipes are ironic, Cuts (the king of all transitions) are forthright.
>
> But what about pushes, page turns and other transitions? These need a space on my table as well.
>
> So I thought I would reach out to my community and see what we could all come up with to help future generations of Documentary editors.
>
> Plus it might fill the mind a bit while the producer is on the phone.
>
> Jump in, if I use them I will credit you with it on the table.
>
> Thanks all
> Steve Audette
>
>

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