Non-Continuity Editing

Non-Continuity Editing -

Some filmmakers choose to use non-continuity editing in their films as it means that they can make the film quick and this then uses less money to create a film. Non-continuity editing is used to make a film seem more dramatic in different part and director may also choose to use it because of this advantage that they have to make the viewer feel more involved with the film. French new wave filmmakers chose to do something a bit more different with films that they had created, people such as Jean Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut chose to take a non traditional approach to film making and chose a more carefree way of editing that was both fast and effective. By not using a traditional method of editing it reminded the audience that they were still only watching a film and they also realized that french new wave editing have drew attention to itself from lack of continuity.

Jump cut -

A jump cut is when something is quick cut from the beginning to the scene to the end of the scene, and the first one was in the film 'A bout to souffle (breathless)'. This film was created by Jean Luc Godard that grasped the attention of its audience and emphasized the use of a jump cut. There was a certain clip that both startled and amazed its audience as it drew attention to itself. In this scene a man and women are driving in a car in France and at the beginning of the scene there is nothing in her hand but a mirror then appears in her hand for a moment, then disappears. This is used to confuse the audience and to make them have to think about how the mirror may have got into the young ladies hands.



Breaking the 180 degree rule -

When a film is being produced using continuity editing the camera will always be on one side so that the actors positions do not change. If you cross or break the break the line it will appear as though the characters have swapped positions on the screen and this may become confusing for some people. Some directors deliberately break the 180 degree rule so that it appears as the the person is say looking around a room or something similar to that. This was first broken in the film 'The Shining' by Stanley Kubrick and then again in the well known film 'The Hunger Games' by Gary Ross. In The Hunger Games it was done as a way of showing someone looking around a room, and was used to show that the person was amazed by what they had seen. But in The Shining it was used in a scene were their were two men having a conversation in a men's bathroom, this is used to show the different reactions and emotions on the two peoples faces and to confuse the audience.