Natural Transitions

What is a natural transition? What are the three different techniques that this video mentions? What would each of them add to a scene?

    A natural transition is one that utilizes elements in the shot to create a wipe, usually to change location or time, while looking more natural than a computer wipe. The most common example of this would be having a car pass and the scene changes as it passes the camera. Some different techniques used by the video are match dissolves, camera movements, and filling the entire frame with the wipe object. Many of the examples used in the video are match dissolves, such as using two objects of the same shape and dissolving from one to the other. Camera movements can be used to move what changes out of the frame, which can be done by tilting up to the sky then down onto a new location, or hiding a cut in a swish pan. The last technique is the most used in the video. For instance, the car fills the whole frame when it wipes and they also zoom in until a subject fills the entire frame, e.g., the walls, bushes, and sky. Each transition is able to add a smoother change in time or location or they can create an idea or feeling based on what is used to transition, i.e., objects used in a match dissolve can cause the audience to form a connection between them.