Jump Cut is an abrupt cut between two shots of the same subject that breaks the continuity of time.
A jump cut splices together two shots of the same subject taken at slightly different moments or camera positions, producing a visible, jarring 'jump' rather than the smooth continuity classical editing is built to disguise. Early cinema treated the jump cut purely as an error to be avoided — continuity editing exists precisely to hide the cut. Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960) turned the mistake into a manifesto, repeatedly jump-cutting within a single unbroken conversation to compress time, unsettle the viewer, and announce that the French New Wave had no interest in Hollywood's invisible seams. The technique has since become a standard tool for conveying urgency, comedy, or the passage of time within a single scene, used everywhere from music videos to modern vlogging, where a speaker jump-cuts between takes to remove pauses without changing the shot.