ABSTRACT
Digitally, editors and colorists can introduce other distinct looks to give a sense of temporal or geographic passages. Grain can be enhanced, color de-saturated, contrast and brightness increased or diminished. Also, rather than using a dissolve to signal time's passage, the editor can digitally throw the scene out of focus and then rack it back into focus as the next scene begins. Glows can be introduced, allowing image highlights to bloom into soft halos of light and then recede again. With digital manipulation, the choices are limited only by the appropriateness of the effect and editor's imagination. Sound is a traditional and common approach to introducing a new element into a scene. In westerns, when horses would arrive, the sound of their hooves often introduced the audience to their subsequent arrival. In this instance characters might be engaged in conversation, hear the hooves off-camera, and look toward them. At that point the horses were revealed.
