Editing (Transitions)

I didn't do too much for transitions, but I wanted to incorporate this into the story.

I started with a black fade into the story just to ease into the film. I used fade in/fade outs for the music for the same reason.

I used a glitch transition and a match cut for the childhood painting to the painting now, then the glitch cut again to go into the childhood memory. I then used a blink cut back into reality. I think having the character blink at that moment as well really helps smoothen the transition.

At the end of the office shots and the beginning of the life montage and going from the establishing shots to coming home from the wedding, I used a sound bridge.

For the life montage shots, I used a dissolve transition for most of them to make it smoother.

Then afterwards, I didn't really use any special transitions, but direct cuts. Although I did add a few more shots where it's somewhat of a reverse-sequence edit, a CU of the character to feel their emotion, then a long shot to show their environment and how that's impacting the character.