A jump cut is a cut in film editing where the middle section of a continuous shot is removed, and the beginning and end of the shot are then joined together. For the process of "cutting" in film-making see Cut (filmmaking. Film editing is an art of storytelling practiced by connecting two or more shots together to form a sequence, and the subsequent connecting of sequences to form an The technique breaks continuity in time and produces a startling effect. Any moving objects in the shot will appear to jump to a new position.

A cut from shot one to shot two, abruptly jarring the audience.

In classical continuity editing, jump cuts are considered a technical flaw. Continuity editing is the predominant style of editing in Narrative cinema and television Most cuts in that editing style occur between dissimilar scenes or significantly different views of the same scene to avoid the appearance of a jump. Every effort is made to make cuts invisible and unobtrusive.

Contemporary use of the jump cut stems from its appearance in the work of Jean-Luc Godard and other filmmakers of the French New Wave of the late 1950s and 1960s. Jean-Luc Godard (French ʒɑ̃lyk gɔˈdaʀ (born on December 3 1930 is a French and Swiss Filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague "Nouvelle Vague" redirects here For the music group of the same name see Nouvelle Vague (band. In Godard's ground-breaking Breathless (1960), for example, he cut together shots of Jean Seberg riding in a convertible (see right) in such a way that the discontinuity between shots is emphasized. Breathless (French À bout de souffle; literally "out of breath" is a 1960 Film directed by Jean-Luc Godard Jean Dorothy Seberg ( November 13, 1938 – September 8, 1979) was an American actress. In the screen shots above, the first image comes from the very end of one shot and the second is the very beginning of the next shot — thus emphasizing the gap in action between the two (when Seberg picked up the mirror).

The jump cut has sometimes served a political use in film. It has been used as an alienating Brechtian technique (the Verfremdungseffekt) that makes the audience aware of the unreality of the film experience. (born; 10 February 1898&ndash14 August 1956 was a German Poet, Playwright, and Theatre director. The distancing effect (from the German Verfremdungseffekt) or alienation effect, is a theatrical and cinematic device coined by Playwright This could be used to focus their attention on the political message of a film rather than the drama or emotion of the narrative — as may be observed in some segments of Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin. Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн January 23, 1898 &ndash February 11, 1948) was The Battleship Potemkin ( Броненосец «Потёмкин», ru '''''Bronyenosyets Potyomkin''''' sometimes rendered as The Battleship

In informal contexts the term jump cut is sometimes used to describe any abrupt and noticeable edit cut in a film. However, technically this is an incorrect usage of the term. A famous example of this is found at the end of the "Dawn of Man" sequence in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. 2001 A Space Odyssey is a 1968 Science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Kubrick and Arthur C A primitive ape discovers the use of bones as a weapon and throws the bone into the air. When the bone reaches its highest point, the shot cuts to that of a similarly-shaped space station in orbit above the earth. This edit has been described as a jump cut, including on the box of the DVD release of the film, but it is more correctly a match cut because the viewer is meant to see the similarity between the bone and the space craft and not the discontinuity between the two shots. A match cut or raccord is also called a 'metaphor cut' It is a cut in Film editing from one scene to another in which the two camera shots' compositional

The jump cut was an uncommon technique for television until shows like Homicide: Life on the Street popularized it on the small screen in the 1990s. Homicide Life on the Street is an American Television Police procedural series chronicling the work of a fictional Baltimore It was also famously used in a campaign commercial for US President Ronald Reagan's successful 1984 reelection bid.

The jump cut is also sometimes utilised, particularly on children's television shows, as a very cheap special effects device to give the impression that a character or item can suddenly 'appear' in a scene, usually accompanied by an appropriate sound effect to show the audience that the visual discontinuity is part of the story. A truly convincing visual effect of this nature would need to involve some variation of chroma key visual effects or some form of digital or optical compositing, and so the jump-cut is often used as a 'passable' quick-and-easy and moderately effective technique.

Jump cutting is also very common in horror movies (and video games) as a way to frighten the audience into believing that paranormal events are happening (eg. the ghost-girl-walking-down-a-hallway clip). Movies such as The Ring and games like F.E.A.R. use this often. The Ring is a 2002 American remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film of the same name (also known as Ringu) FEAR First Encounter Assault Recon is a Survival horror First-person shooter developed by Monolith Productions and published by

Other films, such as Cloverfield and the Blair Witch Project, are filmed to look as if they were filmed by an amateur on a hand-held home video camera, and utilise jump cuts to reinforce this impression. Cloverfield is a 2008 monster / Horror film directed by Matt Reeves, produced by J The Blair Witch Project is a low-budget American Horror film released in 1999

Reference

• Bordwell, David; Thompson, Kristin (2006). Film Art: An Introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-331027-1.  

See also

• Match cut