Jump Cut: My Example

I’ve made three different short films that show the effect of jump cut. My first example of jump cut portrays the theme of anger. In the clip two characters have a fist fight, the scene is cut to a fast rhythm to show the anger shown by the characters. The camera moves around the characters as they fight, i wanted to show when the one character was overpowering the other, but resulting to wide angle shots to prove that the two characters mostly have the same strength.

The second film that involves the jump cut technique portrays the theme of confusion. In the clip the character is lost around a college and cant find where he is meant to be. The jump cut gives the effect of leaping in time as the character move around the camera changes positions to wide angles and close ups, doing this technique and by slowing down the clips, the audience can feel and understand the emotion of confusion that the character is feeling.

In my third clip, that has the jump cut technique, i’ve tried to show the theme of panic. In the clip the character has lost and goes looking for his wallet. During the scene the characters walks around looking for his wallet and keeps switching between a close up of him searching in his pocket for the wallet, by doing this the audience know that the character has been searching for his money for a while, as the use of jump cut helps to leap through time.

Jump Cut Example: 2001 A Space Odyssey

In the 1968 film Stanley Kubrick film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ there is an effective use of Jump Cut. In the scene an ape, throws a bone in the air. It goes high, then as it comes down, the bone turns into the spaceship.

The bone which is a weapon of pre-histoirc man and the scene contains a jump cut as the bone flies through the air. Then the scene takes a leap forward about a million years, and the bone gives way to a similar shaped spaceship. This jump cut quickly shows the evolution and advances of man, to the ape to modern day, where we had been to space. This scene portrays the birth of modern man, and shows a dramatic upgrade new technology that have happened through millions of years, but shown in a few seconds. Kubrick uses this scene to portray the message of how sufficient the evolution of man is, as compared to other events that happen in the universe the birth of man is a small and sudden development.

Jump Cut

A jump cut is film editing technique in which two sequential shots of the same subject, taken from the same camera positions but a varied slightly. This type of edit can give the audince a really sense of emotion just though the edit. It’s mostly used to give the effect of jumping forwards in time.

In the Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, the jump cut was famously first used extensively. For this reason, jump cuts are considered a violation of continuity editing as it draws attention of the constructed editing on the film, it  aims to give the appearance of continuous time and space in the story-world.