Chapter Overview

An understanding of time is an essential aspect of any artwork. Photographers, filmmakers, and performers use time directly; painters, illustrators, ceramicists, and other artists generally use time indirectly.
The building blocks of film are the frame, the shot, the scene, and the sequence.
Shots can be related graphically, spatially, temporally, and rhythmically.
The cut, fade, dissolve, and wipe are the most common transitions in film.
Comic books use six additonal transitions: action-to-action, subject-to-subject, scene-to-scene, moment-to-moment, non-sequitur, and aspect-to-aspect.
Duration, tempo, intensity, scope, setting, and chronology are the six major elements of time design.

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