Camera moves & transitions, part 2 · #21

Cutaway

Cut to something else, then back. From the speaker to the listening audience and back; what is cut in is a different subject.

Transitions & Editingcutawayreaction shotb-rollcut awayaudienceedit

Full motion specification

How the movement works

To show a reaction, or to hide a time skip or a removed slip.

01Join: two straight cuts (0 frames); to the other subject at 1.7 s and back to the scene at 3.0 s (1.3 s away)
02Main shot (A): fixed camera (height 1.4 m); a person 5.5 m away talks, swinging arms and legs by 0.45·sin(u×6) rad, with a grey lectern 0.9 m to the right
03Other subject (CUTAWAY): the listening audience, five people 3.1–4.6 m away in blue and pale blue with both arms up, bouncing by |sin(t×9+i)|×5 cm; no background (a different place)
04Bottom strip: A (grey), other subject (blue), A (grey) with a playhead (17 Insert shot shows a detail of the same scene)
05Top-right readout shows "SHOT A" → "CUTAWAY" → "SHOT A"; at 4.7 s it cuts straight back to the start

Prompt

Cut away to the audience reaction in the middle of the talk, then back.