JUMP CUTS

In A Bout de Souffle (Godard, 1960), jump cuts are used when a flowing conversation shot is suddenly, by a change of shot, felt unsynchronized because of the deleting of what should be in between a shot and the other. This is a temporal jump cut, as the space itself doesn't change (no angle or camera position change) but the continuous normal movement is broken suddenly and unexpectedly by a shot change showing a different motion taking place (e.g.: from this movie, when the girl is talking in the car, suddenly changing to her looking herself at her hand mirror).

In Eden Lake's beggining, jump cuts are used during the couple's journey in the highway. The long forward moving tracking shots showing the car from behind are suddenly cut and lead to another shot in a slightly different angle, showing a different situation. This sudden, unsynchornized change and modification in the flowing sequence conveys the passage of time, as the audience fills the imaginary gap between each simultaneous shot which time. It also generates disorientation and amplifies the magnitude of this trip as a more symbolic journey, from their conformist life style to a more harsh and real environment.