Jump Cut in Eden Lake

In Eden Lake the jump cuts show the pass through time, the director used about 4 minutes to show the car moving through the motorway and there are jump cuts between shots to make it longer. Also through the change of shots you can see that the color tones change and this shows how the whole day has passed by. Through the highway the cinematographer uses a Pov of the car, the camara moves forward by only showing what the car has infront.

Jump Cut

The jump cut in the film A Bout de Souffle (Godard, 1960) is a bit annoying because it jumps in aggressivly some movements, actions and expressions. These jump cut shows us that time is passing by, that they have been long time in a car driving around. Jump Cuts are used in the film Eden Lake to show the same, to show time passing by but they edited in a better way by using different kind of shots of the car.

SCREAM DIALOGUE

1. Black screen. SUPERIMPOSE:  SCREAM  (White, capital letters, seem to be beating) // Telephone ringing + screaming + heart beating // The word scream becomes read// screams get louder// zoom to the word SCREAM.
2. INT. Close up Phone Ringing// camera follows the movement of the phone and then follows the woman who picks it up.

WOMAN

Hello?

MAN (Voice- Over) (on the other side of the line)

Hello?

WOMAN

Yes?

MAN (V.O)

Who is this?

WOMAN

Mm who are you trying to reach?

MAN (V.O)

What number is this?

WOMAN (Smiling)

What number are you trying to reach?

MAN (V.O)

I don’t know..

WOMAN

Well, I think you got the wrong number.

MAN (V.O)

Do I?

WOMAN

It happens, take it easy.

Woman hangs up, turns 180° and starts walking.

Phone rings again, women turns toward the phone stays still for a second and then walks to it.

3. INT. Close up. Shot of the phone ringing, woman picks it up again. Camera follows the phone. Camera zooms to the woman’s face slowly, through out the conversation.

WOMAN

Hello?

MAN (V.O CON’T)

I’m sorry I guess I dialed the wrong number.

WOMAN

So why did you dialed again?

MAN (V.O)

To apologize

WOMAN

You are forgiven, bye now.

MAN (V.O)

Wait! Wait! Don’t hung up.

WOMAN

What?

MAN (V.O)

I want to talk to you for a second

WOMAN

Ah, they’ve got 900 numbers for that. See ya’

The woman hang up you cant see her anymore but you can see her reflection walking away of the room by the reflection of the glass door.

4.EXT. Shot of the top part of a tree tilt to medium shot of the house.//Sound of crickets and of a swing moving. Because of the wind.

5.INT. Close up shot of fire in the stove.// sound of fire and of the aluminum hitting the iron kitchen.// pan popcorns are placed in the fire, woman’s hand talking out the sticker of instruction.

6. INT. Camera zooms out of the pan to include woman in the shot.// Phone rings// camera follows woman as she walks through the kitchen// woman sighs.

                        WOMAN

                        Hello?

                        MAN (V.O, con’t)

                        Why don’t you wanna talk to me?

                        WOMAN (Walking through the kitchen picking things up)

                        Who is this?

                        MAN (V.O)

                        You tell me your name, I tell you mine.

                        WOMAN

                        Hah, I don’t think so (Sound of corn beans being shaked)

                        MAN (V.O)

                        What’s that noise?

                        WOMAN

                        Popcorn

                        MAN (V.O)

                        You’re making popcorn?

(Till min 1.26)