I’m not a professional video guy, but I’ve done enough video work over the years to pick up some of the basics. One guideline in shooting video, and subsequently editing it, is that shooting the same scene back with cuts is a visually jarring experience for the viewer because the head (and sometimes body) of the person jumps from one place to another with each cut. Anyone remember Max Hedroom? What’s interesting to me is how the emergence of sites like YouTube have taken jump cuts to a whole new level – and in the case of comedy or a monologue written in a broken up style, it actually works quite well. Here’s a great example of what I’m talking about…