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.

Cross-Cutting: My Example

In my film i’ve used cross cutting by joining a clip of an interrogation and a clip of someone running. As the clip goes on the speed of the cutting gets faster, this creates  The audience thinks that the person running is going to become connected to the interrogation scene. For example the audience may believe that the person running is going to come a save to man being interrogated or that the person running is the man later escaping. Their ideas will change when the man being  interrogated gets shot, which is when the audience really starts to question, who’s running? and why? The big revelation is that the man running looks exactly the same as the man that gets shot. This also develops a character arc as in the end the woman was right to question weather it was the same guy that stole the drugs, as in the end they shot the wrong guy.

Cross-Cutting

Cross Cutting is an editing technique used in film and video to establish action in two different locations, occurring at the same time. In this technique the camera will cut from one action to another. Cross cutting can be used to create suspense and excitement during a scene, for example in a chase sequence swapping from one person to another.