Alternatives to Discontinuity Editing

DISCONTINUITY EDITING

Key terms:

Rhythmic cutting

360 degree space

Jump cut

Manipulations of order and frequency

Story duration

Ellipsis

Inconsistent match on action

Temporal dislocations

Team America – montage

Spiderman – montage

Jacques Tati – Playtime – 360 degree space

The Dreamers – non-diegetic insert

-    8 mins in – jump cut

Breathless – driving scene –

Paris 1968

Pierrot Le Fou

Made in U.S.A – 5:35min

October – 2:20min or 36min

Matchstick Men – Ridley Scott

2001 a space odyssey

odessa steps sequence – Battleship Potemkin

 

Questions:

1. How are the shots graphically continuous or discontinuous?
2. What rhythmic relations are created?
3. Are the shots spatially and temporally continuous? If not, what creates the discontinuity? (crosscutting, jump cuts, ambiguous cues, graphic mismatch?)
4. How do the editing techniques function and what do they emphasize?
5. How does the editing technique contribute to the viewer’s experience of the film?

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