J.S Jump cuts

Jump cuts are cuts in editing that are of the same scene but shot from various different angles. For example jump cuts would be used if you the director was trying to scare the audience or get them on edge expecting something. An example of this is the film Breathless. This uses examples of jump cuts when the boy is in the car, the camera angle varies but is still on the same boy having the same conversation. By using jump cuts the shots can look like they jump in a discontinous way which could come across at first as a different topic of conversation or scene.

In this video we can see the camera angle moves slightly throughout, trying to build up suspense.

Jump cuts sometimes confuse the viewers because if not done in a specific way the audience won't really know why that has been done and they'll be wondering if it's a new scene or the same one. However in the example above, when watching you expect something bad/peculiar to happen because of how many jump cuts there are but nothing actually happens so it makes you wonder why they bothered as it doesn't really add to anything. If anything it just distracts you from what the people in the film are actually saying.