Task Six: Non-Continuity

Task Six: Non- Continuity 

Non continuity editing- A director would use choose to use non continuity editing instead of the more widely accepted continuity editing because non continuity editing it reminds the audience that they are watching a film. Filmmakers such as Jean Luc Gordard and Francois Truffaut where know as the French New Waves because they pushed the limits of editing technique during the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. Non continuity editing are often based on graphic and rhythmic qualities of film e.g. light, texture, shape and movement. The narrative in the film becomes less important.
Characteristic of non continuity editing:
-May violate 180 rule
-Jump cut
-Nondiegetic inserts
-Jarring shot transitions
-Disturbs normal expectations about art and narrative
-Disjunctive
-Distantiation
In the 1960s French New Waves films and non narrative films used a carefree editing style and did not conform to the traditional editing manner of Hollywood films. French New Waves style of editing drew a lot of attention for it lack of continuity editing and the continuous use of jump cuts or the insertions of material not often related to any narrative.    

In film The Shinning bathroom scene, throughout the whole the scene when filming the camera stays on one side of the imaginary line. If you cross or break the line will look as if they have switched positions on the screen. They did because so that they can create a deliberate effect of interest to the audience.  


A bout de Souffle Jean Luc Godard jump cut. The Jump cut is type of edit that gives the effect of jumping forwards in time. It is the manipulation of temporal space length of a single shot and the fracturing the extent of the audience attention. In this film scene you will see cut from one shot to shot two which will make the subject to appear to jump in an abrupt way. This will startle the audience because the want the audience to draw attention to that scene making them think that they are watching a film.


In this scene from the Hunger Games it shows the breaking of the 180 degree rule on purpose. The bedroom switches from left to right. This is done deliberately to enable the audience visually see the movement. This will make the audience feel part of the action or scene giving the consideration of breaking the rule.