Editing
Match cuts help establish the relationship between two scenes or are useful in relating two otherwise disconnected scenes. By ending a shot with a frame containing the same compositional elements (shape, colour, size etc.) as the beginning frame of the next shot, a connection is drawn between the two shots with a smooth transition.
The clip below from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, takes place just after a woman is brutally stabbed to death while in the shower. As her blood washes away down the drain with the water, the camera slowly zooms in on just the drain itself. We then see a graphic and obvios match cut as the centre of the drain becomes the iris of the victim's lifeless left eye.
The next clip from Space Odyssey directed by Stanley Kubrick, is genrally viewed as one of the most famous match cuts in all of film. As a primitive primate discovers the destructive powers of his newfound technology, the femur of a deceased animal, he tossesit high into the air. Thousands of years pass in a single moment as a close-up of the bone cuts to a long shot of a satellite orbiting the earth, thus showing the vast technolical advancements made over the past millennia.
The next clip from Space Odyssey directed by Stanley Kubrick, is genrally viewed as one of the most famous match cuts in all of film. As a primitive primate discovers the destructive powers of his newfound technology, the femur of a deceased animal, he tossesit high into the air. Thousands of years pass in a single moment as a close-up of the bone cuts to a long shot of a satellite orbiting the earth, thus showing the vast technolical advancements made over the past millennia.
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