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Pictorial Transitions and Match Cuts
Unlike a single painting or sculpture, most narrative fi lm is made of a continuous series of
changing images. One can put very different images next to each other or very similar
images next to each other. When one cuts to an image that is noticeably similar to the previ-
ous image, it is called a match cut . If a character is eating and begins to move a spoon
toward his mouth and then the camera cuts to a close-up of him completing the action and
putting the spoon in his mouth, this is a match cut even if the camera has moved. The two
shots are tied visually and thematically together by the action.
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