Match Cuts in Film and TV
Match cuts are a technique used by many filmmakers and it is when the camera cuts from one shot, to a separate but related shot. If executed well, they should be seamless and hard to notice by the audience.
There are three types of match cut:
Match on Action
This is an example of a match on action shot from the film Crash. In it we see a woman walk out of a shop and push open the door. As the door opens, the camera cuts to a different door being opened, by different people in a different location.
Sound Bridge
Sound bridges are used all throughout films to take the setting from one location to another. Here is a clip from The Matrix, that uses a sound bridge.
There are three types of match cut:
- Match on Action: Where the movement of objects and characters cut from one shot to another.
- Graphical Match: Where an image or visual element cuts from one shot to another.
- Sound Bridge: Where some noise from the following scene plays over the end of the current scene.
Match on Action
This is an example of a match on action shot from the film Crash. In it we see a woman walk out of a shop and push open the door. As the door opens, the camera cuts to a different door being opened, by different people in a different location.
Graphical Match
It is not only in films, that techniques like this are used, in this season one episode of The X-Files, we see a drawing of the murder suspect on a piece of paper, transition into the actual face of the killer.
Sound Bridge
Sound bridges are used all throughout films to take the setting from one location to another. Here is a clip from The Matrix, that uses a sound bridge.
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