Abrupt transitions

[adwb]

I find watching a lot of the scenic/ travelog type videos captured by drone cameras that the short 2-5 clips because of the change of subject matter or the change in landscape seem to jar or jump rather than slide from one to another.

On a visual project with a storyline or a documentary with interviews this is not so optically disturbing because A) we are used to it from television and other media, and (B) there is dialog / plot and so on to distract, but on a purely visual video with soft music I always feel there should be a factional transition to to soften the edges

Anyone agree or is it just me being a grumpy old man?

 

[MrTVR]

I know exactly what you mean. To combat this phenomena (and the boredom of ‘yet another drone shot’) we added ground based video to our mix several years ago. By interspersing the aerial shots with close up ground shots the end result becomes less jarring and usually more interesting, even without dialogue to tie the shots together.

A good (appropriate) music track and editing to the beat helps too.