Transitions
What happens between two scenes.
IrisA circle opens in the centre and uncovers the next scene.
BlindsThe picture splits into strips that flip one after the other to the next scene.
ProFloodYour colour floods the frame from the bottom, then withdraws over the next scene.
ProInkThe next scene spreads like ink on paper, edged in your colour.
Bar matteFive round-ended bars shoot across the picture one after the other: the next scene is already inside them.
Dot matteA screen of dots swells in a wave from one corner to the other: each one is a window onto the next scene, and they end up meeting.
ProBrand windowYour logo (or your name in large letters) appears in the middle, cut out of the picture: the next scene shows through it. It grows until the camera goes through.
DashThe picture closes like a frame around its middle: a band, then a dash in your colour, brighter and brighter, then a square, while the rest goes out of focus. The square tips onto its corner and bursts open: it is a window onto the next scene, where that scene's subject stands, and it grows until it leaves the picture.
CourierYour logo (a dot in your colour if you have none) crosses the picture at the subject's height, thrown then braking: behind it the next scene is already there, ahead of it still the first, and under it the picture is blurred.
Brush strokesFour broad brush strokes cross the picture, one way then the other: their head is in your colour, still wet, and the next scene appears in the paint.
ShapesA circle, a square, a triangle, a half-disc and a cross pop up one after the other with a bounce: each is a window onto the next scene, edged in your colour. Then they grow until they meet.
PanesFour round-cornered panes open one after the other on the picture, laid out like an app page: each shows a piece of the next scene, slightly offset, then they join and the picture is whole.
Shadow dissolveThe picture is its own matte: its dark parts let the next scene through first (or its light parts), then the rest follows, bit by bit.
ShutterThe six blades of a lens close on the picture as they turn, until only a point is left; they open again on the next scene. The edge of the opening is in your colour.
Opening strokeA stroke in your colour crosses the picture from edge to edge, then opens in two: the next scene is inside it, and its two lips part until they leave the frame.
PenumbraThe picture darkens from its edges until only a pool of light is left, closing faster and faster on its subject and taking your colour. In the dark the pool slides to where the next scene's subject stands: it opens again there, hazy and tinted at first, then the whole picture comes back to daylight. The rest of the picture never goes out altogether.
Dive into the letterAn O in your colour opens over the scene and the camera dives through its counter: the inside of the letter is the window onto the next scene, until it fills the frame.
Wire of lightA pulse of light runs along a tube, draws the frame of the next scene as it goes round, then the scene lights up inside it and the frame opens out to the edges.
Pixel irisA video game's iris: a stepped circle closes on the subject, the screen is dark for an instant, then the circle opens on the next scene.
Construction linesThe next scene is drawn before it arrives: the scene fades into the print's colour, construction lines cross the frame around what is coming, a plotter draws its outlines in white lines, then it fills in.
TearThe scene is a sheet of paper torn in two: the tear runs down, the two halves part with a small turn, their edges show the white core of the paper, and the next scene lies beneath.
Flap waveThe frame becomes a board of flaps: a wave crosses it from left to right and each flap turns over on its hinge, the top half then the bottom one, to show the next scene.
PuddleDrops in your colour fall into the frame, grow and run together until a puddle covers the scene, then the puddle drains down and leaves the next scene.
Glass sweepA pane of fluted glass slides across the frame from left to right: behind it the next scene, refracted in strips, then plain once the glass has gone by.