ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how individual shots can be made into simple sequences that tell stories, create moods, entertain, and inform us in an enhanced way, much more than individual shots could ever achieve on their own. If a cut is made in the middle of a moving shot and the resulting halves are joined together, this will create a jump cut. As a result, people and objects will jump across the join as what used to be continuous time passes in an instant. A jump cut can also be produced if two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that are too close together. As a rule, if the camera positions are separated by less than 30° and framing similar-sized shots, a viewer experiences the cut as a jump rather than as a change of viewpoint. If crossed completely, the new shot is heading towards our old friend, the reverse angle.
