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Match cuts like this can be used to create a natural fl ow of images so the cuts are barely
noticed. Match cuts can also be used to relate two different kinds of images. A pair of shots
could cut from an image of the round glowing sun to an image of a round glowing light
bulb in a room at night. This will not only create a comfortable transition between two similar
looking objects but it may communicate to the viewer that the passage of time has caused
the daylight of the sun to be replaced by the nighttime light of the electric bulb. In this case,
the two images are matched by content, shape and perhaps even color.
Match Cut
One could also match images by movement such as a car racing down a road transitioning
to a train going down a railroad track. A match cut of a female scientist holding up a test
tube in a laboratory dissolving to the same woman holding up a baby bottle just before she
feeds her baby could tell the story of a woman giving up her career to be a stay-at-home
mother. Match cuts like these are a way of slicing through time and complex details to force
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