{
 "slug": "snap-transition",
 "name": "Snap or clap",
 "category": "transition",
 "group": "Gesture and movement",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "A gesture by the speaker triggers the change, so the cut feels caused.",
 "use_when": "Face cam into B-roll.",
 "phrase": "she snaps her fingers at the lens and on the snap the shot changes to the product on the table",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Use one marker per kind of change and keep it for the whole video: a snap or clap from face to B-roll, a swipe between B-roll shots, a jump cut from face to face.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "The Director Chair script structure notes"
  },
  {
   "text": "As an opening, the honest version is a gesture that becomes the product shot.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on short-form video (one TikTok account, 233 posts and 27 measured clips, read 30 Oct 2026)"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "swipe-transition",
  "format-mixed",
  "cut-on-action"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "practitioner",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words from the Director Chair script structure notes"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/transition/snap-transition",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/transition/snap-transition.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot. Cut: the subject snaps the subject's fingers at the lens and on the snap the shot changes to the product on the table",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot. Cut: the subject snaps the subject's fingers at the lens and on the snap the shot changes to the product on the table",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. The subject snaps the subject's fingers at the lens and on the snap the shot changes to the product on the table.",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The subject snaps the subject's fingers at the lens and on the snap the shot changes to the product on the table. Framing and subject stay as in the start image."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}