The French New Wave is a style of editing that explored the use of the jump cut and broke the 180 degrees rule. Non-continuity editing is a style of film making that was made popular throughout the 1950's & 1960's. Filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut pushed the limits of editing techniques and creates a new style of editing called "French New Wave"
French New Wave films used a carefree editing technique and they did not conform to the traditional Hollywood films. The French New Wave didn't include much Continuity Shots which gave the film a natural feel.
The 180 degree rule is a style of editing where the camera faces the person looking at the distance, when the camera turns around to the other person, it makes it seem like they are looking at each other. The film "The Shining" broke the 180 degree rule, normally this wouldn't happen but because the film itself was set out to be very strange, breaking the 180 degree rule was perfect to make the scene itself very surreal. Breaking the 180 degree rule will make the characters swap positions in the screen.
Jean-Luc Godard - Jump Cut
In this video, you will see a jump in the continuous clip, a gap that is used to speed up time. It is also used to get the attention of the viewer to a certain object or person.
Hunger Games - 180 Degree Rule Broken
Here, Katniss enters the room and the 180 Degree Rule is broken when a shot of the bed is on the left, however in the next shot, the bed is on the right. Breaking the 180 Degree rule completely flips the bed to make this scene seem abnormal.
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