Today in class, we began by pulling up our editing techniques slides and continuing on those. Each group was responsible for choosing 10 out of the 13 transitions, and finding and example of each. In addition, we had to define the transition and analyze the example we chose, telling where in the clip the transition occurred and how it affected the film. For example, I chose the transition "cross-cutting" which is a back-and-forth shot between two locations. For my example, I decided to go with a phone call scene, since they generally cut back and forth between the two people on the phone. I ended up choosing a phone call scene from American Sniper, which I pasted in the slide along with the definition. Then, I completed the analysis that went along with it. I wrote "This scene from American Sniper shows a phone call scene between Chris and Taya. The camera cuts back and forth from Chris to Taya, showing the audience where/what they are doing during the phone call. Since Chris is talking on the phone while operating a sniper rifle and Taya is seen sitting in a chair in a dark, silent room, the cutting back and forth creates a contrast. This emphasizes that Chris is at war, while Taya is home, alone." Meanwhile, my group was doing the same thing with different transitions.
13 transitions with their definitions: http://nofilmschool.com/2016/03/rocket-jump-film-cuts-and-types-transitions-editing
phone call scene from American Sniper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtZZghMpC_I
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