Between the Scenes: What Every Film Director, Writer, and Editor Should Know About Scene Transitions

“What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.” — Alfred Hitchcock

This text is written about the power of scene transitions as a visual storytelling tool. Make your audience feel your story on an emotional level through shifts in time, place, and character. Filmmaker, radio producer, and film scholar Jeffrey Michael Bays has taken what used to be vague instinct and turned it into the primary driving force behind connecting your audience emotionally with your story.