2. Dissolve (time passing)
3. Fade to black/white. Fade up-pace can be changed on this one (often time passing)
4. Jump cut - cuts to the same person or thing twice with either a closer or further away shot
5. Graphic match - the image of one objet fades/dissolves/cuts to another object that is similar
The shower scene in Psycho (directed by Alfred Hitchcock) uses different editing techniques. The multiple cuts and jump cuts are used to build tension. As well as this, frequent cuts were made as, in the film, they could not show nudity and create the illusion of the knife stabbing the woman. Also, it looks like the character, Marion Crane, is enjoying the shower. This is because, metaphorically, she is washing away her sins as she recently decided to return the stolen money. A graphic match is used between the plughole and her eyeball, as well as a slow pan from her body to the plug to represent her life slowly draining away. At the end of the clip, the shot pans from her eye out to the money she stole implying it was to late for her to return it.
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