I mean no disrespect toward amateurs. They often do a good job and with their own means. :)
You know I’d planned on just continuing to ignore your nonsense as I learned quite some time ago that trying to engage in reasoned conversation with you was a waste of time, but in the interest of saving the time of some of the other posters here who haven’t learned that lesson yet...
For somebody who seems to think of themselves as some sort of cinematography expert, your knowledge of modern day film-making techniques really does leave a lot to be desired.
The transition in the scene in question is what’s known as a match cut (a graphic match, if you want to be specific) and is an incredibly commonly used technique across pretty much all visual mediums.
You can argue all you like that it’s poorly executed or that a match cut wasn’t the best choice for this transition (personally, I think it worked quite nicely), but to suggest that it’s some bizarre editing blunder made by amateurs demonstrates a clear lack of understanding of what I’d consider to be very basic editing techniques.
And before you think about coming back with claims that you of course know what a match cut is, please save us all the time.
You see, it’s comments like this one...
Time happened between those two scenes and yet it feels like the transition implies just a few seconds later.
... that give you away.
Match cuts can be used to transition between both short and long passages of time, but they are typically one of the go-to techniques when a filmmaker wants to jump many years ahead or backwards in time (as you can see
here,
here and
here), so I’m not sure how you could possibly argue that the use of a match cut implies that only a few seconds have passed.
We don’t just use match cuts to transition between different periods of time either, with them often being used to take the viewer from one location to another without having to resort to fades and hard cuts - as we see in the opening moments of Shenmue 3.
And just in case you want to try and argue that match cuts are something that we only see in movies,
here is a nice example of a match cut (albeit a slightly different type) from GTA IV, which I'm fairly certain was not directed by amateurs.
Rather than spending your time constantly trying to tear people down, perhaps consider taking a moment to educate yourself instead.