Choosing Picture Transitions
Hypothetically, you shouldn’t move on to the next shot until your audience has absorbed the information, or the action is completed.
• If you don’t hold a shot long enough, you may leave the viewers intrigued, puzzled, or frustrated.
• Hold it too long, and their attention wanders.
• In practice, various factors influence how long you retain any shot: how interesting it is, the action within it, how important the shot is to the program’s development, the prevailing mood, and so on.
Selecting the right transition
Transitions should reflect the mood or tempo of the production. They can even alter how the audience interprets successive shots. Using a cut, when a slow mix would have been more appropriate, can be ...
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