CTCS 190g Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Eyeline Match, Jump Cut, Continuity Editing

• School: USC
• Department: Cinema and Media Studies
• Course: CTCS 190g
• Professor: Drew Casper

Document Summary

Relationships between shots: movement - three types in film. Movement between shots or editing (from frame to frame) Creates coherence, relates objects in space and time, continuity, eased transition from theatre. Shot a is of someone looking at something off-screen, shot b shows the object being looked at: matching shots for formal and thematic properties (eg. shape, color) Can be broken to suggest contrast/conflict, to collapse time within a shot (jump cuts) or to create spatial/temporal discontinuity. Classical cutting techniques: reasons to cut: Cutaway - cut to something other than action. Multiple points of view of an action. Different space / different time: logic of classical cutting: Perspectivization - keeps audience oriented; shows you to let you know where you are. Avoid displacement - maintaing continuity through plot, sets, etc. Eye contact - following eye line rule and looking at least 5 degrees away from camera.