fade in
Appearance
See also: fade out
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (film, television) A type of transition used in visual media, in which the transition is at first black, fading to a visual image.
Verb
[edit]fade in (third-person singular simple present fades in, present participle fading in, simple past and past participle faded in)
- (film, television, transitive, intransitive) To fade from black to a visual image in a film or other visual media.
- 2024, Jackie Evancho (lyrics and music), “Behind My Eyes”, in Solla[1]:
- Fade in and out of a daydream / Our waking life torn at the seam / I am the match / You're the gasoline
- (music, audio, transitive, intransitive) To commence with silence in a song and then slowly increase the volume of the music until the intro of the song is over.