1 | The cut is a basic form of continuity editing and can be used in a variety of different ways across all types of media as a way of moving from one scene to another. |
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3 | Compare SceneTransition. |
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5 | [[index]] |
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7 | !!Tropes: |
8 | * AgeCut: A cut to a character several ages older. |
9 | * AmbulanceCut: A sudden cut to a character in the hospital or on an ambulance to such. |
10 | * AnswerCut: A character asks a question, and the next scene shows the answer. |
11 | * AntiClimaxCut: The next scene is building up to be really exciting and interesting...but then it instantly cuts to the buildup having no payoff. |
12 | * BladeOfGrassCut: The camera focuses on a small, unimportant object during a scene, usually to emphasize or symbolize something. |
13 | * BodyWipe: Part of someone's body fills the screen and dissolves/cuts to the next scene. |
14 | * ChargeIntoCombatCut: A fight scene is about to start, only for it to cut to something else entirely to break the tension. |
15 | * ConversationCut: Cutting to another scene in the middle of a conversation, as if no time had passed inbetween one scene and the other. |
16 | * CutApart: A cutaway reveals a SwitchingPOV wasn't about the same situation. |
17 | * CutawayGag: A character mentions an unseen past event or a hypothetical situation. After that, a brief scene is shown depicting what the character was talking about. |
18 | * CuttingBackToReality: A hallucination or fantasy is witnessed—only for a cut to reveal what's actually happening. |
19 | * DescriptionCut: A character mentions someone will do something, and the next scene shows them doing the complete opposite. |
20 | * DistantReactionShot: Cutting to somewhere further away as something is happening, possibly to emphasize how big and grand it is. |
21 | * ExpositionCut: Cutting to the aftermath of an InfoDump to save time. |
22 | * FlashbackCut: Instead of an actual flashback, a brief cut shows what happened, then instantly cuts right back to the present scene. |
23 | * FuneralCut: A character is in a life-threatening situation, only to cut to their tombstone (or the other characters attending their funeral). |
24 | * GilliganCut: A character refuses to do something and the next scene shows them doing exactly what they said they wouldn't do. |
25 | * HardCut: The most basic cut out there: one scene immediately cuts to the other, with no transition inbetween. |
26 | * IKnowWhatWeCanDoCut: A character gets an idea, then it cuts to them carrying the idea out. |
27 | * IronicEchoCut: Someone addresses a subject, and the scene cuts to someone else addressing the same subject in another manner. |
28 | * JumpCut: Instantly cutting from one shot to another, very similar one. |
29 | * MatchCut: The scene cuts/dissolves to a similarly displayed lifeform or object. |
30 | * MultiTakeCut: The exact same action filmed from various angles then edited together with Jump Cuts. |
31 | * NextThingTheyKnew: A couple goes from flirting with each other to having sex over the course of two shots. |
32 | * ReactionShot: Character says or does something and the camera cuts away to another character to show them react. |
33 | * RelaxOVision: A form of censorship where disturbing scenes are replaced with footage of something more pleasant. |
34 | * RepeatCut: The same action, line, or brief exchange is shown more than once in immediate repetition. |
35 | * SmashCut: An abrupt cut from one scene to the next. |
36 | ** SmashToBlack: Instantly cutting to black at the end of a scene. |
37 | * SneezeCut: Someone is talking/thinking about someone else; cut to said person sneezing. A common anime trope. |
38 | * StopTrick: Shooting a scene, changing something in it, then shooting another one; this gives the illusion that a dramatic change has happened in the blink of an eye. |
39 | * SwitchingPOV: A scene cuts from one character's perspective to another's. |
40 | * TwistedEchoCut: The conversation cuts to another just like it, though related to something else. |
41 | * TwoScenesOneDialogue: Cut between two or more characters talking about the same thing. |
42 | [[/index]] |
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