Friday, 23 November 2012

Post 5: Jump Cuts, Over-the-Shoulder Shots, Cutaways and Point of View Shots

Jump cut
 A cut to later action from one filmed scene to the next, creating an effect for the viewer or they have done it by mistake and have thought about the continuity with the film.

http://www.movies-dictionary.org/Film-and-Video-Dicitonary/Jump-Cut

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Over-The-Shoulder-Shot
With over the shoulder you normally have two people, you can see the corner of someones head and shoulder and the other persons face when they are talking. This reveals the emotions the actor is showing. You often get a reverse shot so you see the other person talking.

http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/narratology/terms/overtheshoulder.html

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Cutaway
A single shot inserted into a sequence of shots that momentarily interrupts the flow of action. It is usually, although not always, followed by a cut back to the first shot. For example editors sometimes use cutaways as a means to cut out of dialogue (perhaps to shorten the dialogue) and then cut back into.

http://www.movies-dictionary.org/Film-and-Video-Dicitonary/Cutaway

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point of view shot
A point of view shot is where you see the shot through the actors eyes and you see what they see.

http://www.digitalfilmarchive.net/clda/docs/PointofView.pdf

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Jump cut

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