Exercise 5: Exploring Types of Cuts

Jump Cut:

A jump cut is when a single shot is broken up by a cut that makes it look like the character or object has jumped forward in time.



Within the scene below (00:38-00:43), I wanted to make sure the momentum from the previous scene could be carried over to the next scene so that the story would progress at a comfortable rate. That's the narrative purpose for the cut, the practical reason is that we had actually shot a scene where the two actors received their orders and walked over to a table to sit down, however, due to a lack of planning that scene had disturbed the continuity of the rest of the sequence. For this reason, I added a jump cut to skip to the main back and forth between the two characters. 



L-Cut and Cutaways:

An L-cut is when the audio from your current shot carries over briefly to your next shot.

Cutaways are when you cut from your original shot to an insert shot before going back to the original shot.





The reason I used an L-cut for the shot below (02:23-02:29) is for continuity purposes, as well as to make sure the rhythm stays the same between the two scenes. Additionally, the sequence up to that point had been very same-y and monotonous, so I wanted to mix things up as well as experiment with something I had never done before.





The reason I used a cutaway for this scene (01:40-02:00) was to try and tell the story in as much of a visual way as possible. Again, mostly in an attempt to experiment with something I had not done before and to break away from the typical documentary format of interviews, I wanted to convey the emotions visually and engage the audience in some way.


Match-Cut:

A match cut is when you cut from one shot to a similar one, this can be achieved by matching the actions and/or composition of the two shots.



The scene below is supposed to be the climax of the film. It's supposed to be the inner thoughts of the male character before he's snapped back to reality. This was done in a way to show the contrast between the thoughts of the character and his actual actions, still providing the audience with a shocking moment but making sure we're still grounded to the reality of the story.



Smash-Cut:

smash cuts are about going from one scene to the next in an abrupt manner.




I used a smash cut for the video below (00:03-00:10) to break away from the static shots I had been using up until that point and inserted a shot with more movement. This was again to break away from the monotony of the previous scene


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