8/2/2023 0 Comments Jumpcut in film![]() ![]() This insert ends in silence over their frozen image. Instead of allowing his own sentence to continue in this disaster of a shot, Neistat abruptly cuts to a short stylised slow-motion insert shot featuring the two actors in question - complete with their names assigned in text on the screen. Stuttering, he completes it, but then continues to stumble towards the second actor’s name. As Neistat begins introducing the two famous actors, however, he seems to momentarily forget the first actor’s name. He’s addressing the camera directly, as is customary to the aesthetic of most vlogs (Tolson, 2010), and is explaining what’s going to happen in the next scene. Neistat is perhaps one of the world’s most famous vloggers - having currently over 11 million YouTube channel subscribers and over two and a half billion total views across his 1,000+ videos (Social Blade, 2020). I’m watching one of Casey Neistat’s video blog, or ‘vlog’, episodes, Movie stars prank the press (2016). The vlogging space is rich in moving image innovation and instances of this, such as the vlogging jump cut, need to be identified, analysed, and discussed - just as occurred for cinema and television during their past periods of emergence. This paper argues that vlogging culture has not only adopted the jump cut as core to its productions, but also adapted and evolved it for specific vlog use. ![]() It could even be said now that jump cutting a monologue is one of the inherent conventions of vlogging. In the early days of online video platforms, such as YouTube, video bloggers employed jump cuts while editing their direct-address monologues to allow them to string together the best parts of the performance. ![]() Traditionally, the term ‘jump cut’ has described film or video edits that jump forward in time and detract from a sense of continuity. The great jump cut (r)evolution: A case for studying the evolution of vlogging production techniques ![]()
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