Arcing scenes are when a character grows through a revelation or drastic behavior swing. These scenes reveal character arcs changing throughout the story.
Decelerating scenes move characters further and further away from the goal. The character gives up, fails, or makes a compromise. Obstacles or conflict are greater than character.
Transitional scenes glue two scenes together and close gaps in time between events or places. If you have a character who is in Paris but says he must go to Peru, you do not cut to a shot of him suddenly sitting in some hut in Peru. You might show a map with a line going across the ocean or create a quick series of travel shots to show time, events, and places changing. Here is a list of possible transition scene techniques: