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Posted by ushere on 08/22/06 01:59
nobody special wrote:
> Martin van derPoel wrote:
>> If the fade is short il looks like uncle jim is dancing one minute
>> and telling a joke one second later.
>
>
> I'm of the school that says after 150 years of film making and
> evolving editing technique that you use dissolves to show time
> passing and to a lesser extent, locations changing, and cuts to jump
> in time while remaining in the same place, or changing place while
> retaining the time. People are used to these conventions and I don't
> break them casually.
>
> One time in college, we were doing an 'experimental' video, that was
> supposed to be creepy and scary. I asked the TD to make EVERY
> transition a dissolve, not one cut in the whole thing. It was
> disturbing, but not in the ethereal, dreamlike way I intended, it
> just looked lame.
>
hear, hear....
if you can't get by with cut to cut, or either a dissolve or fade to
black, then there's something seriously wrong with your script or story
telling (incl. weddings). then again, there's nothing like piling on the
fx's for the bleary eyed 3am tvc audience. oh, and don't forget to
scream the vo....
leslie
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