lap dissolve

noun

1. films the technique of allowing the end of one scene to overlap the beginning of the next scene by fading out the former while fading in the latter

Example Sentences

An artist like Miller or Dave Gibbons, who worked on Watchmen with Moore, can storyboard a zoom, a cross-fade, a jump cut or a lap dissolve with a deft immediacy that would beat many directors at their own game.

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The young man is hardly more attentive to her than the camera, which pans up slowly on her nude body from feet to calves to knees to thighs to a lap dissolve.

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In his spare time he stares at motion pictures, often "stopping them and backing them up" to engage in rapt inspection of every last optical effect and lap dissolve.

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In moviemakers' jargon, a "lap dissolve" consists of a movie scene slowly fading out while the next scene builds up right on top of it.

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