Cutaway

A cutaway is when a camera is filming a continuous shot of something, however a shot of something else will but placed in the middle. After the second shot it cut back to the first camera therefore avoiding a jump cut




A cutaway is used in the first scene of inception (2:34 to 2:37) where it starts of one the main character then i switches to the other character, this makes the audience have a good understanding of both characters as both shots show the expression of characters. also it lets the second character react to the other character line to make the film feel more realistic






I also used this technique in my first music where one of the main characters is running to get ready in time for the football match, the jump cut happens at (2:46-2:52) in this time the shot changes between  him waiting for the lift and cuts to him miming on a balcony. We did this because we thought that it would make the shot less boring and wont make it drag on for to long.