Wipe Research.

Here's a compliation of the wipes I've found from various trailers that I'll bung at the bottom so you can see what I mean. These are used for video transitions and test transitions:

Video transitions:

• Straight side wipes (Right)
• Spikey side wipes (Right)
• Blur out into next shot.
• Barn doors (upwards)
• Spikey barn doors (side wipe)
• Cross fades

Text Transitions:

• Zoom into or out from the text.
• 3D spin into shot (right, drop down, lift up, enters and leaves shot going right)
• Wipes (Right, left, right then down)
• 3D spin right is followed by a right wipe sometimes.
• Diagonal wipe (Top left)
• Circular wipe (inwards)
• Fades (in, out, cross fade)
• Barn doors (outwards)

Trailers Researched:

The Killer Shrews (1959)

The Alligator People (1959)

Robot Monster (1953)

Bride of the Monster (1955)

By the way! There's a line in The Killer Shrews trailer that we are directly taking which is "Your flesh will crawl with fear at their nearness." It's just so rubbish that it's perfect for our film! Hopefully Alan won't have a problem with direct lifting but it's a public domain film so hopefully we can use it. It's too good not to really :D