Research into shading into black

(Done by Petr Zheltov from my group)

We want to make our shots as smooth as possible and we want to make the cuts invisible. We have looked into many different ways of making the cuts. We looked at such things as cuts on movement, but this would not work for our film as we want to moving shots which go from one side of the studio to the other and we only want to cut when we are at he end of the shot. Cutting on movement would mean cutting in the middle of the shot and this would disturb the flow of our opening title sequence.

We have also looked at such transitions as dissolving, but this just did not seem appropriate for our thriller and would distract our audience.

We decided to fade into black in each shot as you can see in some of the shots from the video below. We will end and start each shot on something black and in our opinion this will be the most suitable way to do the transitions between shots as it is not jumpy, it is very calm and there is literally no disturbance to the eye. By looking at many different videos we were able to understand that if we would use this effect in our thriller than our audience would just flow from shot to shot. This would allow our audience to concentrate on the action in the shots as they would not be disturbed by the cuts.