Blog 3
I looked at a YouTube video that I really like because of its use of jump cuts. The video is called “Girl Talk As You Grow Up” and the actor in this video creates two characters who are both played by herself and she uses these jump cut scenes to go back and forth between to girls who are talking to each other. The camera focuses on one character first, while she is speaking and when the next character responds, the camera cuts to her. The scene is broken up between three sets of girls, all played by the same person. The first set of conversations is between two kids in elementary school. The scene goes cuts between the two while they speak with each other. The next has the same concept, but the camera cuts between the two elementary school girls to two middle school girls. The same thing happens again when the camera cuts between middle school girls to high school girls. The purpose of these cut scenes is to show that time has passed between the shots. Since the first part of the ...