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TV/film scenes when the audio from the next scene starts a few seconds before the visuals do. Apparently a 'J-cut'.
I find it utterly distracting to the point of infuriation; tells me I'm watching the product of an editing suite, not a narrative.
chez_jay-
I agree, so infuriating
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What you're describing is bad editing, J and L cuts are used constantly when editing and more often than not you wouldn't even notice. You would find it much more distracting if everything had a straight cut, but bad technique is bad technique. It's very common for bad editors to use long audio cross fades on j-cuts to make lazy edits. And don't get me started on cross dissolves!
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TV documentaries over-using the historical present tense: "When the printing press is invented, everything changes". Producers get interview subjects to us it whenever they can to make their stories seem more immediate, but it's so unnatural that people often mess it up and slide into past tense within a single sentence: "When I see smoke coming out of the engines, I started to shout..."