Hand Over

Similar to a Motivated Pan, a hand over gives the viewer a reason to move from scene to scene or from character to character.

A classic example is where the camera follows the spy type character, there is a meeting with a second character. Something is passed on and the camera moves off following the second character. Nothing needs to necessarily pass hands. The camera merely needs to enter the scene with one character and leave with another.

In the scene below we follow the first character into the house, down the corridor and into a room where he meets the new character who then becomes the focus of our attention. If we simply cut from wherever the previous scene was to inside the house the viewer would be left wondering what was happening. In this case the first character provides the link for the change of scene and introduces the new character.