Usually the dissolve is used to show a connection between two locations, Ben Harrex demonstrates how the dissolve can be used as an effect.

Transcript -- Cutting footage

It is often said that a movie comes to life in the edit suite. Ben Harrex of Final Cut post production studios in London discusses five themes with examples; The Cut, The Dissolve, Cropping and Resizing, Titles and The Sound. Ben explains how the video editor has a huge amount of creative control over how the final product looks. This material forms part of The Open University course T215 Communication and information technologies.