- Cut
- Dissolve. This symbolises time passing.
- Fades to black or white.
- Jump cut. This edit jumps to a closer shot of an object or person.
- Graphic match - the image of one object that fades or dissolves into another cut that is similar to it.
The shower scene in Psycho (directed by Alfred Hitchcock) uses many edits. For example:
During the murder, the edits are frequent and cut between the murderer and the victim. This builds up the tension. As well as this, the directors were not allowed to show any nudity and they were not allowed to show the knife stabbing her as it was not real.
After the murder, the camera slowly pans from her body to the shower drain. The slowness of the panning symbolises how her life is slowly coming to an end. The scene then cuts to Marion Crane's eye using a graphic match.
Then the camera pans from her eye to the packet of money she stole on her bedside table which implies that although she contemplated to return it, it was too late as she was already dead.
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