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February 3

Filming

What is the technique called in cinematography when the image lingers in a scene, but you can already hear someone from the following scene speaking? --2001:16B8:3174:3C00:CCF6:EB79:E5E1:72C1 (talk) 03:19, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Possibly a special case of Dissolve (filmmaking). ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:07, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

It has become very common that the audio transition (not necessarily speech) precedes the image transition, replacing the traditional simultaneity. The director or cinematographer would discuss the effects they want with the film editor, so one would expect there to be a name designating specifically such anticipatory audio transition.  --Lambiam 10:04, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

• It's called a prelap. WP:WHAAOE. --Jayron32 12:21, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Well spotted! I'd just like to add that it isn't a novelty today: Alfred Hitchcock did one in an early scene of The 39 Steps (1935 film), at the cut from the crime scene in London to the train heading for Scotland. --142.112.149.107 (talk) 20:38, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Can somebody work out where to put a link to "Prelap" in Template:Film Editing - it doesn't seem to be there at present. Alansplodge (talk) 12:16, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

 Done. --Jayron32 13:05, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you kindly. Alansplodge (talk) 13:04, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

From an editor's viewpoint, it can also be called an L cut or a split edit.--Thomprod (talk) 13:59, 10 February 2021 (UTC)