Task Six – Non - Continuity

Directors will choose to do non - continuity editing, instead of the more widely accepted continuity editing as they want to remind the audience to some extent that they are watching a film. The first two directors to start using these methods and making them popular was Jean Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut in the late 1950's and throughout the 1960's. They used methods such as jump cuts, to emphasise the lack of continuity in the films. Also a film can only be a certain lenght of time, so by skipping some of the more boring proceesses like walking, they can skip half of it to save time.

One of the main catalysts of non - continuity editing, Jean Luc Godard liked to use jump cuts when filming when using non - continuity editing. One of his most famous jump cuts was in the film 'A Bout de Soufflé' (Breathless), when the two actors are in the car and one moment you see her talking to the man (driver) and then it cuts back to her and all of a sudden see is applying make-up with a mirror. The reason it makes it a jump cut as in continuity films you would of seen her go into her purse and get it out, but as it is non - continuity she has automatically.

Another more recent filmmaker Stanley Kubrick used non - continuity editing in his widely popular film 'The Shining' as in the popular toilet scene there are two characters called Jack and Grady. Stanley  purposely broke the 180 Degree Rule, his reasoning for this was to give the illusion that jack was in-fact crazy / losing his mind, to make this an even clear fact, Grady is actually a ghost of a previous caretaker.

In a more recent films, Gary Ross also broke the 180 Degree Rule in the film 'The Hunger Games' as he was trying to show out of place she was once she got to the hotel suit as she was from a poor town, to now becoming something of a celebrity. Also he was trying to show how new and confusing it was to her as she has entered a new room, one that was probably bigger than her whole house back at home.