Match Cuts are very useful at times in video productions. They can give off a change of scene (a bit obvious), time changing, symbolism, etc., etc. They have been used many times within the history of cinema. For instance, Stanley Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey. The scene where the first full evolution of man I guess you can say, killed another one of his kind and then throws the weapon into the air and when it descends back it cuts to a space station orbiting a planet ( the station was similar in shape to the weapon). It can work very well, if you know how to conduct the shots perfectly.
As said before there are different types of match cuts, for instance:
1.) Symbolic leaps: As said before with the example of Space Odyssey's bone to station scene, that's a symbolic leap. the beginning of man to the exploration of space.
2.)Storytelling transitions: a basic summarization of through as two shots of what has happened through the time in the story.
3.)Wordless Commentaries: to be honest, I don't really know how to explain it.
4.)Pure Imaginative Explosions: It's like a comparison, you see an action happening but before the action happens you see something else doing an action looking similar to the original one
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