------ chapter3 ROGUE CUTS:

MISMATCHES, JUMP CUTS, CROSSINGTHE LlNE,ANO BAO CUTS

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Eclitors regularly cut shots together that were filmed in

clifferent locations at clifferent times by clifferent crews. In this chapter we'll expose mismatches from a few
Mismatches happen. Not beca use the editor isn't paying well-eclited movies - half of which won or were nominated
attention to which hand holds the knife from one cut to for the Academy Award for ecliting - and cliscover how
another but because the editor is paying attention to where the editors mitigated the mismatches. We'll also explain
the story is going and where the audience's focal point jurnp cuts and their many functions in movies. Lastly we'll
will be. Yes, the editor is a magician of sorts, finessing define crossing the line and the 1800 rule - a mystery to
mismatches and other non-continuity cuts to keep the many filmmakers - and discuss what a bad cut really is.
audience's attention and the story clocking along. As direc-,
tor/ editor Edward Dmytryk wrote in his book On Film
Editíng, "Film is the art of illusion, and the most unlikely
things can be made to seern real."

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