klinky wrote:Transitions are pure evil...The only two you'll want to use are Additive Dissolve and Cross Dissolve...
ErMaC wrote:Yes, only George Lucas can get away with that wipe. That's why it's called the Star Wars wipe. They tried to get away with it in Battlefield Earth, and aside from the fact that the movie itself sucked ass, the transition didn't work either.
These transition effects played into the grand showmanship of the film, contributing to its feel as an exciting story being told with flair. In another context they would seem out of place, and in the mostly gritty and 'realistic' world of 1970's films like Dirty Harry, they were virtually never to be seen. But they were right at home in the more comic-book fun approach of Star Wars, and they once more linked the film to its inspiration origins in classic adventure serials like Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, which regularly employed creative wipes. Lucas was also influenced by the work of the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, who was himself known to use transition effects.
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