scene transition
Between two moments
A scene transition is the method by which one scene ends and another begins in film, television, theater, or other visual storytelling.
Common techniques include cuts, fades, dissolves, and wipes, each conveying different relationships between scenes—a hard cut suggests immediacy while a slow fade implies the passage of time.
In theater, transitions may involve lighting changes, curtain drops, or stagehands moving set pieces.
The director used a match cut as a scene transition to link the two storylines.
- cutSeverance or reduction
- hard cutImmediate scene transition
- smash cutInstant scene transition
- fadeLose intensity gradually
- fade to blackGradual dimming ending scene
dissolve · wipe · crossfade · montage · smash · jump cut · jump · segue · blackout · white out · interlude · edit · splice · bridging · continuity · ellipsis · flashback · flash
- screenwritingscreenplay, screenplays, screenwriter, screenwriting, script
- film editingediting, film editing, cut, editor, splice
- screenwriting techniquesdialogue, exposition, flashback, montage, voice-over
- film timeflashback, flash forward, flash-forward, time lapse, time-lapse
- theater termsplay, actors, stage play, limelight, directing
- fade-outsfade to black, slow fade, crossfade
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