Task Six – Non - Continuity

Non- continuity editing
 This describes the deliberate or accidental violation of rules of continuity when editing films. As a deliberate technique, it may be used to connote authenticity or to create alienation.The purpose of non continuity editing is to make the audience see more in the movie than just the storyline, it engages the audience more and gives them an avenue to be able to judge on a fair side. Although it may look like a mistake that is the whole point behind.
There is a shot where it breaks the 180 degree rule, and skips from side to side this is really disorientating for the audience.

The Shining - Stanley Kubrick - Breaking the 180 Degree Rule
Although breaking the rule often looks unprofessional and does not work, it has been used by many directors including Stanley Kubrick in the bathroom scene of The Shining to make the audience feel unbalanced and disorientated as well as Peter Jackson in The Lord of the Rings with Gollum show a divide between his two personalities. The only reasoning behind breaking the rule one could have is for the effect that it causes, like Kubrick and Jackson have done, otherwise it will not work with the rest of the scene and will only confuse the audience on where they are watching the scene from.





A Bout de Soufflé - Jean-Luc Goddard - Jump Cut

This film became very famous for the use of jump cuts in it, It is Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 French New Wave classic À Bout de Soufflé (Breathless). The film’s producer apparently asked Godard to reduce the length of the film, and one way he did so was during some of the conversations. Godard explained: “Instead of slightly shortening one and then slightly shortening the other, and winding up with short little shots of both of them, we’re going to cut out four minutes by eliminating one or the other altogether, and then we will simply join the [remaining] shots, like that, as though it were a single shot.”

A bout de soufflé video


The first jump cut was at 0:14 seconds we see her sitting calm without searching for any mirror, or holding a mirror in her hand, at 0:15 seconds, she is seen holding a mirror and styling her hair. The second jump cut was at 0:20 seconds, where the mirror disappeared from her hand. She did not throw it away or make it disappear, jump cut was used. t.here are more jump cuts in the clip but the most obvious are the ones at the beginning.

The Hunger Games - Gary Ross - Breaking the 180 Degree Rule
the use of breaking the 180 degree rule is used when she gets into the bed room. this was effective as that point in the movie because of the situation she was in, this technique was used to confuse us a little bit and it was also used to show that she herself was confused and was not herself any more.