Filmmaking Techniques - Graphic Match

This year a type of cut I would really love to try would be a match cut or a graphic match, I think that these create a really good effect when you want to link one scene to another for example, possibly the most famous match cut onscreen and in film is the 2001: A space odyssey.
This is a classic example of a match cut for these reasons,
 it links the two scenes together, the shots both have the same,shall we say semantic field about them (technology), I feel that this would work very well with the idea's we have come up with mainly because there are many ideas linking the films
 the whole way through.  This match cut specifically shows how after an ape discovers primitive weapons and tools can be made by the use of a bone then uses the match cut to show much more advanced technology like the one seen, an orbiting nuclear weapons satellite. The connection is drawn between the development and as examples of primitive and advanced technology respectively.

Another very famous match cut is in an Alfred Hitchcock film, Psycho. It is after the infamous murder of Marion Crane in the 'shower scene' where the camera shows the blood running down the drain of the bathtub which then match cuts to a shot of Marion's cold eye.

This is very clever as it shows the logical coherence of the two shots and shows how they are both happening at the same time within the film.


A Graphic Match which I think would probably work more smoothly in the ideas that we have come up with is not just a cut to the next scene but it is one that would flow more smoothly, This is when the colours, objects, shapes and movement in the two scenes match, for example if a man was walking and he walked out of a shot when the next shot came up he walked into the shot it would give a smooth look and even if the two places were very far apart it could look like they were extremely close to one another.