5 transition techniques

1. Simultaneous: 13 Reasons Why, Season 2 Episode 13
    This scene starts off with Clay, Tony, and Justin, outside of their school going to the Winter Formal Dance, then it quickly transitions to a dark toned, suspenseful, quiet scene of Tyler walking over to an unknown, suspicious box that revealed to have guns in it. For the next about 4 minutes, scenes keep switching back and fourth between the dance with loud music playing and lots of color, then back to quiet Tyler organizing his guns. This builds up the tension that Tyler might do something bad since in previous episodes Tyler would have problems with other students and even getting sexually assaulted at school. This scene shows simultaneity because while the group of boys are having a fun time dancing at their school event, at the exact same time, Tyler is setting up this terrible, heinous, act of violence he is planning to do to the school. Simultaneity is when things happen at the exact same time. This can also show contract since it contrasts the tones of a lighthearted, fun time at the dance, and the dark tone of Tyler.


2, Contrast: 13 Reasons Why, Season 1 Episode 13
    Throughout this entire episode of 13 Reasons Why, Contrast is displayed within the transitions of scenes. This scene switches between the past and the present with the past being before Hannah committed suicide and shows her the day before and the day of and then contrasts between what all the other students are doing in the present with listening to her tapes and continuing on with their everyday lives. This is not only displayed in this episode but in all the episodes of this season. It shows when Hannah was alive and you are able to tell that that is the past since the tone is more of a warmer tone and makes everything have more of an orange tint to it, then the present is displayed by a cooler tone on screen with everything looking more blue and pale and sad. This is to show the contrast between before Hannah's death and after Hannah's death. Contrast is to show 2 different sides of something and this perfectly displays contrast since it shows the way the students acted before they knew anything like this was happening to her and after when they realized they could do something about it.


3. Le Motif: iCarly Season 4 Episode 3
    This episode of iCarly is when Spencer decides to pull pranks on Carly and Spencer, Carly, Sam and Freddie, all talk about the pranks that Spencer pulled back in highschool. When it shows him pull the prank it plays a song and shows Spencer dancing to the song meaning he successfully pulled the prank. This song is the le motif. Since it plays each time that Spencer preforms a prank it is constant throughout the show. Also a le motif of this show can be whenever Sam presses her "boo" button on her sound remote. She tends to click this sound when someone says something stupid or that she does not approve of.

4. Symbolism: 13 Reasons Why, Season 1 Episode 13
     This episode begins with Hannah explaining all the people that were on her tapes and why they had a place in her tapes. As she is explaining why she chose each person she continues to paint numbers on tapes with a blue nail polish that she stole from her parents store. This blue nail polish she then begins to paint her nails with once she is done painting the numbers on each tape. This nail polish was used to represent her sadness since it was blue. The blue nail polish represents and symbolizes that she is sad since blue can be seen as a color of sadness. Then at the end of this episode, Hanna's momfinds the bottle of blue nailpolish on her desk after she already died. She sees the bottle and cries in hence that the blue nailpolish could have been seen as her sadness. The blue nailpolish symbolizes Hannah's sadness and depression throughout the show and that is why she uses it to paint the numbers on her tapes and her nails before she dies.

5. Parallelism Dexter season 5 episode 1
     This episode of Dexter is the first episode of the season which opens with a new case. This new case happens to be one too close to home for Dexter. To it being his wife Rita was the one dead this time. The scene starts off with Dexter outside his house which was the crime scene and the police had arrived. The police go inside to then find his wife Rita dead in the bathtub. The camera then switches back to Dexter outside as he is in complete shock. As he is waiting outside with his baby, his sister Deborah shows up and then tries to calm him down. During all of this, police sirens and lights are continually going off. Deborah takes the baby from Dexter and he breaks the silence of the sirens and the flashing lights and goes “Rita’s dead. It was me.” As soon as Dexter says that 3 more red and blue flashing lights go off and then a big white flash happens and transitions to a closeup of Quinn examining the body in the bathtub and the photographer was right over his shoulder taking pictures of the crime scene. That would be an example of parallelism with the transitioning of the red and blue flashes to the big white flash. This is used to connect 2 events with either similar or not similar topics.