Transitions are one of the key ingredients in your film, a good one is easily appreciated, and a bad one is easily noticed.
When attempting to make good transitions there are a lot of things to keep track of. First make sure that the colors of each shot match up, and their exposures and focus are similar, try to make the audience search as little as possible. When in post, make sure to move your clips around so they flow from one to another. Keep the motion on path so that they play well together, opposing movements will appear very confusing and will pull your audience out. Sound also can play a big roll in your transitions, they help match up shots even if there is no similarities inside the footage itself. Lastly make sure to grab many shots and sounds, the more you can pull from the better! A large library lets you experiment if the transition you originally chose does not work well.
Next film project I create, I am going to keep transitions in mind. I never thought you could do so much with them. Just remember when making transitions keep them simple and don't get to complicated, all you are doing is connecting two shots.
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