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Hard Cut
The Hard Cut is the simplest type of film cut. It consists of rapidly moving from scene to scene without any breaks between, which works best when trying to quickly progress a story, elicit emotions or show audience member perspectives – two films which use this method extremely effectively include 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Hunger Games.
Cross-cuts are similar to hard cuts, but establish an association between two scenes instead of showing them in isolation from one another. It is an effective way of building tension within a scene – such as this example from Misery.
A J-cut is a variant on this that looks similar to an “L” or “J”, as its audio from previous clips continues into new clips – for example, in an action movie such as this one, it could include hearing an injured victim scream while soldiers move across the jungle.
Cross Cut
Cross cuts are another type of cut similar to parallel editing but differ by cutting between several sets of action occurring simultaneously at various locations and times. When used effectively, cross cutting can create tension and excitement in any scene.
Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi masterpiece Inception stands as an outstanding example. Nolan uses parallel and cross cutting techniques to show how actions in an upper level dream layer can influence deeper levels within it.
Cross cuts offer another effective means of masking shot to shot transitions while creating continuity between space and time – for instance, they can be combined with match cuts to show how one scene might continue into another person responding (L-cut). This technique adds depth and creates narrative suspense within your scenes.
Dynamic Cut
Dynamic cuts are shots that show the same scene from different perspectives, whether visually or audibly. It works best when it highlights contrasts; for instance, an expansive song could be cut short with a sudden sound effect such as an audible boom. Dynamic cuts are excellent ways to build suspenseful atmospheres like in suspense movies.
Dynamic cuts (also called insert shots) provide a smooth transition that brings in new material not included in the original sequence of shots. They’re particularly helpful when transitioning between shots that show one character from different perspectives or actions at different angles.
An experimental setup was designed to transversely cut single fibers and study their failure behavior under various loading conditions, including dynamic ones. Elastic coupling stiffness kp was determined as the ratio of change in cutting force FT to change in cutting depth ap. This value was found to correlate well with stress-strain behavior of cutting fiber and machine structure.
Match Cut
Match cuts are one of the more frequent scene transition techniques used to connect two scenes together visually and audibly, adding drama, comedy or tension as desired by editors and directors. They can evoke specific responses from audiences which can range from excitement to sadness or tension.
Match cutting usually refers to graphic matches between shots where subject matches closely visual information in another shot (such as smoke from an extinguished candle matching smoke coming out of a chimney), but can also involve movement, specific visual elements or sounds such as door knocking or sirens.
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey features a match cut to connect two very disparate scenes by showing an ape tossing a bone slowly rising before cutting to an image of Richard Strauss’s An der Schonen Blauen Donau waltz from Richard Strauss’s waltz An der Schonen Blauen Donau playing on a space station. Not only is this an incredible visual pun, but also serves as a quick way to establish time and place within each scene.
