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  • noun Plural form of jumpcut.

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Examples

  • A character might have a flashback shown in rapidfire jumpcuts that, seen slowly, cue viewers to scenes from previous episodes.

    Comics on the Screen 2009

  • And the pacing of those foggy interior scenes was also reminiscent of a music video–influenced by collage and jumpcuts–which was an unwelcome contrast to the pacing I enjoyed so much in the first half of the movie.

    On Oscar Day: Cold Souls as the Antidote to Avatar (and Facebook tonight) 2010

  • Apparently afraid of having lost a Zeitgeist step or on all the forensic shows tunneling Fantastic Voyage-like into cadavers, L & O: C. has C. S.I.-ized its murder enactments, utilizing fancy zoom-ins, spazzy jumpcuts, and a battery of audiovisual noir effects capped with a gruesome fillip (such as last night's needlessly showy impaling of a motorcyclist on a spiked fence).

    Memo to Dick Wolf: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • For example, there's a jumpcut from a striking sex scene to an exterior shot of the motel by day, which immediately jumpcuts to night.

    GreenCine Daily: Bug. 2007

  • Allen enters the film obtrusively at this point by literally illustrating Harry's state of mind: as Harry types a sentence about his character's "fragmented" life, the film stutters in a series of jumpcuts, as Woody, Harry, and Harry's character come together in the same cinematic framework.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Ed Howard 2008

  • Allen enters the film obtrusively at this point by literally illustrating Harry's state of mind: as Harry types a sentence about his character's "fragmented" life, the film stutters in a series of jumpcuts, as Woody, Harry, and Harry's character come together in the same cinematic framework.

    Deconstructing Harry Ed Howard 2008

  • But other than that this movie starts off on a great path and then jumpcuts into a bunch of random loose ends.

    No Country for Old Men 2007

  • On "Fast as You Can," the music jumpcuts, and Ms. Apple, as her singing scats and deepens and then heightens again, earns the right to sing the words, "I'm blooming within."

    Fiona Apple Blossoms ��� Sonic Youth's Millennial Boom 1999

  • I knew then that it was a lab issue, but some of those survived the Special Edition treatment ... like the jumpcuts on some shots of Artoo when he switches from two legs to three legs.

    Home Theater Forum Adam Gregorich 2010

  • For example, there's a jumpcut from a striking sex scene to an exterior shot of the motel by day, which immediately jumpcuts to night.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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