Transitions

 

• Cut: one of the simplest edits that transitions you to the next shot with no fancy wipes or anything just a simple: you cut, see the next shot, cut, see the next shot there is no need to use fancy transitions in something that doesn't need it and so it would just confuse the audience. a good example of simple cuts would be an action scene such as this one ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es2uYtSJh-Y) as the cutting on the action and just how fast paced the editing is gives a sense of tension and thrill as if you do not know what is going to happen next and so the transitioning works well.  
• Dissolve: A dissolve is a transition often used to show that time has passed between shots or that a new location has been established. A dissolve looks like either two shots are dissolving into each other  and the there's the dissolves that go to black for instance to signify the end of something; see my music video All Of Me by John Legend to see both types of shot in play.
• Fade: A fade is a form of transition that like the dissolve can signify the beginning or the end of something as the shot fades in giving the audience their information and then at the end shows the shot fade out signifying the end or even the end of a scene into another completely different one.
• Wipe: A wipe is a transition you would use if you were say making a teenagers programme where you wanted to show time so  you use the wipe which pretty much looks like a page of a book being turned so you would be showing a new chapter in the story for that programme. (see video below to see some of the transitions spoken about)
• Cutaways: A cutaway is a shot of another subject that is not the current action. So you would say see a man about to throw himself over the side of a building, instead of showing the gory body on the floor just as he was 'jumping' the edit would cut away to say the worried family members, huddles up shouting at him and then the wince on their faces and the looking away in horror after the action has happened, still giving the audience information on what has just happened just not as graphically.
• POV shot: A POV shot, or point of view shot refers to a camera shot that makes the audience feel as if they are seeing what is happening from the point of view of the character. So it may be that there is a shot of a girl writing in her diary, but you only see the hand and the book from eye level as if the character is looking at the book. So you feel as if it is you writing the information, this gives the audience a sense of knowing more information than they really do.
• Shot-reverse-shot: Shot reverse shot is a shot where one character is shown looking at another character, and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other see hunger games example below to see this in action where the two characters are having a conversation on a window ledge.