How Does Jean-Luc Godard Use Jump Cuts?

Editing “determines the duration of a shot” and Run Lola Run illustrated several types of editing including freeze frames, jump cuts, and dissolve cuts that allowed

In one scene, Michel is driving in a car with the American girl he tries to convince to go with him to Italy, Patricia. He is describing her beauty and the features that he likes about her, and as he gives each detail, the camera does a jump cut to a shot of Patricia’s face. In another scene, Michel is in Patricia’s apartment. As they are talking, the jump cuts make the entire scene appear to be a montage rather than one continuous scene. The jump cuts don’t add to the narrative or continuity of the scene in any way; they are

Early movies were shot and viewed as slide shows. With narrations like The Life Of An American Fireman, where instead of cutting we would see full clips linked together. When the filmmakers brought us from one action to the next they, repeated actions instead of cutting and letting

In the interview, John Huston explained the function of cuts. Without moving our heads, human eyes will not pick up the information in between looking from one object to another. Basically, your eyes can juxtapose two or more objects. This is a cut. Film Editors use cuts to discard information that doesn’t push the story forward.

However, In Ken Dancyger: The Technique of Film Video Editing History Theory and Practice states that the first invention of film was back in 1895 were editing was not even something they hoped to achieve. Edwin S Porter sued dynamics to show continuity in his film which consisting of 20 shots. He discovered that shots are the building block of the film, which is true, the whole film is made of shots that are compiled together, edited to make it seem like a one scene. The things we see today for editing to be specific we not taken into consideration, screen direction and continuity of the story. The cameras we placed fixed to one position and the act is far away from the screen.

The editing in The Big Sleep is extremely quick and precise, yet it is perfectly seamless. The cuts do not call any attention to themselves at all. These types of cuts are present in almost ever scene, but for example, the scene when Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is looking through the house and finds the hidden camera uses a very specific editing style. The editor uses a wider of the

Another interesting use of camera cutting can be found in the in between scene where Cleo is roaming the streets of Paris. She is now becoming the one watching other people rather than being the one watched as she was in the beginning (probably because of her beauty and famous singer status). While she is watching the camera cuts between other people’s conversations and then while she is walking the camera is in essence her point of view. However during this walk, the people passing are watching her as well, thus proving that this is the transition time. The use of cutting between shots of her and shots of all these people passing her not only show this change in who is watching who, but also allows for a sense of time passing. Interspersed with these shots are images of people we have already met, the widow, the boyfriend, the piano player, as well as the images of a monkey resting on a clock and her wig resting on the mirror, these things conveying how the people who know her see her and how she sees herself. This is a genius montage because these two things represent the same thing, how people see her, how she sees people, and how she sees herself, and by interspersing them we see

There are plenty of examples of continuity editing in Eternal sunshine, both temporal and spatial are used. Discontinuity is used throughout the memory erasing scenes with the deliberate use of ellipsis as Joel relives his memories in flashbacks. Some of the shots from Joel’s memories are put together in a montage edit; this is another example of discontinuity editing. There are multiple uses of crosscutting in the film, which is when there are a series of shots that keep cutting back and forth from one shot to another shot, this occurs in a lot of the flashback scenes. Also there are several jump cuts, which brakes the ”continuity edit” as in order to achieve a smooth and non-noticeable cut from one shot to another the camera must move 30 degrees or more to attain the continuity in the movement of shots. But a jump cut is deliberately shot without using the 30-degree rule. Therefore when you put the shots together they make a “jump” affect and it brakes up the continuity of the edit. In this case, Gondry intentionally directed the crosscutting and jump cuts in order to express Joel’s reactions to the procedure. At the beginning of the film the editing picks up a rhythm and runs smoothly, giving a perfect example of continuity editing, but as the film goes on it begins to switch between continuity and discontinuity as the edit balances

In addition to those examples the it shows both jump cuts and form cuts. It uses jump cuts during some of the action scenes for shock effect or to call attention to a detail, as in commercial advertising

To start off, cutting plays a major impact in telling the films story even if you do not realize it. This is because cutting gives the audience the knowledge they need to know to put the story line together. For example, the very first scene in City of God shows a group of people preparing chickens to eat. This scene is gruesome because it shows breaking chickens necks, pulling feathers, and slicing them open. The cutting in City of God shows the audience the multiple scenes going on at the same time with different characters in different locations. In the scene with the chickens, before the chicken got loose the camera would go back

Considering that it is odd that he didn’t just stop at this cut instead of making another on top of it. As we can see Stone's third cut, which was the Final Cut, was 214 minutes long. His fourth cut, which was the Ultimate Cut, was 207 minutes long. As you can see that the Ultimate Cut is seven minutes shorter, but as you look deeper into the two different cuts you can capture more differences. For example the Final Cut added all the scenes that were cut from the Director's Cut and some new scenes adding length to the film. This also is said to have made the historical contents more clearly to the audience. By changing some of the scenes around it makes more sense to the people watching. In reality it is hard to see what order is truly going to make the most sense. However in most people’s eyes the Final Cut makes the most sense and is the most clear to the people watching it. In reality I don't think they needed to make the Ultimate Cut. I can see where he came to the idea of making the Final Cut due to the fact that he was rushed on the other

In the early years of post production, there was a distinct lack of editing within the film industry. Everything filmed was for the most part one continuous shot and lacking too much creativity in the post production region. Edwin Porter was one of the key founders that changed the way post production was addressed. Although he originally filmed following what is referred to as Aristotelian construction (Musser, 1991, p167) he began paying closer attention to how a story could be told more effectively through visual representation. Edwin began straying away from Aristotelian construction and instead opted to use cutting to help him create the story he wished to create. Whilst this was not an

There are many unique and innovative techniques used throughout the film. Some were sequencing which are different shots that represent purpose like flashbacks to another time period. Another that was interesting was the use of the newsreel footage. Also the many different angles that were used, and how the lighting and shadows were a big part of the film.

The shot transitions are cuts which maintain the flow of the narrative and the character’s actions.

Most commonly questioned temporal shots are smoothed together using continuous diegetic sound creating a logical linear timeframe that is an auditory reminder for the audience. Other related techniques, such as the flashback and montage, are also commonly utilized in continuity editing within Classical Hollywood cinema. A flashback is the jump in the story from a point in the present to a point in the past; an internal analepsis is a flashback