Video:Amazing Transitions Tactics in Cinematography

Hi I’m Brain. This time I want to talk about transition by sharing with you some of the most amazing videos with beautiful transitions.

Transition is to show how a shot changes to another. First let’s look at an amazing video.

This shot starts with three umbrellas shooting from the top, and then transits to traffic lights with the same color, natural and smooth.

This shot starts with a typical aero filming angle. As the camera keeps ascending, the gimbal turns the camera downwards and rotate at the same time, which needs the cooperation of a pilot and a gimbal controller. The key of this transition is shape.

This is a very experienced transition, from the dancer’s white dress to the snowflakes to the petals caught by the actress.

A classic transition using the actress’ sight light.

The actress walks from a warm-toned environment to a cold-toned one in this transition. It’s not difficult to find out the moment of transition a shadow flashing across the scene. This particular transition skill is getting more and more popular.

Name of this sensational travelling video is Watchtower of Turkey, shot by an young Italian director and photographer Leonardo Dalessandri. He spent 20 days in Turkey in 2014, and edited this tour into a 3min long video, where he used a lot of time lapse, fast cutting and montage.

First let’s look at how these shots transit from one to another. The keys are color and similar elements.

Blue is the similar element for this transition.

The birds are the key for shots of architecture to transit to a draw bridge.

And these shots are using obstructions to transit from one to another.

And this one uses a movement of opening a door.

In addition to shots, sound effect is another important element of transition. Excellent sounds make transitions smoother and more natural.

This is the sound track of watchtower of turkey. Isn’t it just amazing?

 

 

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How to make innovative party videos?Tips you shouldn’t miss

We have seen tons of reunion pictures like these, how about something innovative videos this time?

Freeze the time:

 ‘Share your food’

Pierce through door/fence

Maybe you have seen similar videos before, but they were too complicated to get and required lots of equipment. We are going to show you how to get these just with your smartphone.

PART 1

‘Freeze time’ actually started with Bled matin’s Mannequin Challenge:

【Chinese actress Ma Sichun’s Mannequin Challenge】 ：

This is how it works: everyone freezes and keep still simultaneously, then the camera guy/gal threads through people and get a long-shot.

Difficulty: ★★★☆

Key Points:

1. It is more interesting to include a lot of people, but that gets more difficult, too.
2. The camera guy needs to decide how he/she is going to move the smartphone. Get a few ups and downs to make the video fun to watch.
3. Get one to give commands. When he/she says ‘freeze’, everyone stops moving and the camera man starts to shoot.
4. Shoot in spatial places.
   Recommended editing app：

 iMovie（free）is really good for this. Import your footage into iMovie, you can accelerate a few parts to get the feeling of motion.
PART 2

One GIF we posted earlier has caught much attention.↓↓↓

Many readers asked how we did it. We actually reversed the video.
Difficulty：★★☆

Key Points：

1. Design your actions, imagine what you get after reversing.

Reversed video is：Get off the car→ wear jacket→ wear sunglasses→ walk forward. So when you are shooting, just reverse all actions: Walk backwards→ removing sunglasses→ Take off jacket and toss away → get into the car.

Recommended app：

 ReverseVid（free）supports to shoot in app or import footages for editing.

Be innovative on this one! See this:

Or stir out really cool latte art:

PART3
“Pierce through fences is actually stop-motion animation. Shoot many pictures and turn them into a video.

This one can be very very interesting:

Three guys floating in the video, is actually made of quite some jump-up images. Adjust angles of jump and connect them all—it seems three guys are rotating on brooms.

This video is similar:

This is actually how we shoot piercing through fences.

Key Points:

1. Two actions should be consistent: where the characters are, their action ranges, directions etc.
2. Shoot steadily.

Recommended app：

imotion

Make your videos creative in next party, hope you can have a lot of fun!

 

 

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