Filming Day | U.N.I

"How did you do that...?"

Jump Cut: is a cut in film editing in which two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly. This type of edit causes the subject of the shots to appear to "jump" position in a discontinuous way. For this reason, jump cuts are considered a violation of classical continuity editing, which aims to give the appearance of continuous time and space in the story-world by de-emphasizing editing. Jump cuts, in contrast, draw attention to the constructed nature of the film. 

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Inspired by Ed Sheeran's 'Drunk' video, we decided to incorporate a collage of pictures on the main characters bedroom wall, of images related to the girl he has just split up with. It adds quite a comical value to the nature of our narrative video, where the lyric says "Now I'm in a position to be another stalker" We focussed on this particular 'I love you' picture, and used it as a way of transitioning to flash backs of when they were together, creating a quite emotional narrative in doing so, the audience are able to get inside his head and understand better his emotions in this way. The close up of this picture in the video also works well , as it is featured several times throughout our video. 

To create this, we had to leave the camera videoing as we placed more images on the wall one by one. 

This meant that in editing, we could use jump cuts to create the look that we wanted, when our actor stayed in the same position, so it looked like the images were appearing on the wall.  

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Another way we used jump cuts was to fit in with another lyric, is for the line " I don't drink like everybody else, I do it to forget things about myself."

Therefore, to make this quite literal, we decided to have him, on his bed. We wanted to make sure he was alone as he 'doesn't drink like everybody else.' 

We used empty beer cans and placed them on and around him one by one so they build up, with the same effect we used before. 

I think that jump cuts work effectively to signify time passing. As he has just experienced a bad breakup, he is naturally going to feel depressed and sad, so things around him will move while he stays quite still, and we wanted to convey this emotion.

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