It is important that I experiment with cut types as sound is the bread and butter to a movie, the right diagetic or non - diagetic sound can really enhance a scene and make it more interesting, for example if you were to do a split edit and have someone screaming in pain before you see splashes of blood or a swing of a knife, the sound will make you jump and change the atmosphere, if you were to just see blood splashing and a knife swinging but there was no sound or even the sound was timed it wouldn't be as climatic as if you had a blank screen and a blood curdling scream and THEN you showed the action.
The reason I am researching into sound cuts is because of this reason, I want to create a good movie with good sound and I must know how i can cut sound and use it first before I can go record it.
Straight Cut
The most basic type of shot transitions, the cut is the most common way to join two shots. It is the most basic in that the film undergoes no special processes to perform a cut; basically the two film strips are simply played one after the other. To watch the movie, this is where one image on screen is instantly replaced with another, often in the form of a camera angle change. This is know as a Straight Cut.
L Cut
An L Cut (Split edit) is an editing technique that results in a cut occurring at a different time for audio than for video. For example, we may hear characters voices a few seconds before we see them on screen. In order to achieve this effect, the editor had to make an L-shaped cut on the filmstrip itself. where the sound will play a few seconds before the video cuts in.
Here's a video example that could help explain better:
