Edgar Wright is, in my opinion, the strongest example of a director/creator who uses transitions and the way he cuts and shapes the scenes to help frame the story and gives a clear direction of the narrative; be it when the movement of the character’s head or eyes dictates the flow of the scene and story (for example, the attached scene in Hot Fuzz), the very literal movement of frame to frame in Scott Pilgrim or the fast paced whip pan transitions used to set a scene in Shaun of the Dead. This success is what I want to achieve also.
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