My understanding of two cuts from the reading is that there’s one cut (opening cut) of setting the situation and another cut (closing cut) of recording the process.
In the upcoming person in time project, my opening cut would be the setup of projectors and leapmotion that invites people to present their hands in front of the projector to generate their own butterfly, and the closing cut would be the experience of seeing an animated butterfly flying towards the group and joins the collection.