Most of the time, when we edit our films, we don’t want the audience to notice the cuts. That’s called continuity editing – one shot follows the next smoothly and seamlessly, without pulling the viewers out of the story. But there are moments when breaking that rule serves a purpose. And when it’s done well, it can be just as powerful. For instance, by deliberately placing visible jump cuts into your scene. What are they, and what impact can they create? Let’s find out. In our era of YouTube tutorials and talking heads in Instagram reels, jump cuts have become something mundane. Creators use them for practical reasons: to omit unnecessary parts of content and avoid setting up a second camera angle for the sake of the edit. While we got used to this application of jump cuts, it doesn’t mean they have lost their craft of storytelling in modern cinema and videos. So here we are, unlocking it again! Jump cuts in a nutshell In our latest MZed course, “Get Me Started with Adobe Premiere Pro,” filmmaker and educator Digby Hogan introduces jump cuts as an editing tool to shorten long action by inserting jumps in time. As he says, it’s helpful when you want to move through a longer piece of content, but still catch little snippets along the way. That is what jump cuts are at their original core – a montage technique for compressing time. Image source: Digby Hogan/MZed As you probably know (or can see...
Published By: CineD - 6 days ago