Browse by Tags
All Tags »
Art of Editing Corner (
RSS)
Sorry, but there are no more tags available to filter with.
-
|
In The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks, director, Christian Nyby, editor) the viewer physically "travels with” Marlowe throughout the film – he is in every scene and we have little access to information not available to him or to events that...
|
-
|
The Conversation was made by Francis Coppola in the mid-70’s, around the time that the FBI wiretapped Martin Luther King, and Nixon ordered surveillance operations on anti-war activists, civil-rights workers, and journalists on his enemies list. Secret...
|
-
|
Wonder Boys was edited by the “grande dame” of editing, Dede Allen, best known for her groundbreaking editing of Bonnie and Clyde . In that film she used jump cuts to elongate a moment and rapid cutting to create incredibly kinetic action...
|
-
|
LOST Editor, Stephen Semel, answers questions about editing the popular television show (on Avid). How much do the editors on LOST discuss your different approaches, any cool techniques you’ve developed, what you want to avoid, etc.? The longer we work...
|
-
|
United 93 Edited by Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson, and Christopher Rouse Directed by Paul Greengrass In Part 1 , I explored how parallel editing is used to structure the film. In Part 2, I’ll discuss Cinema Verité and some techniques used to somewhat...
|
-
|
United 93 Edited by Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson, and Christopher Rouse Directed by Paul Greengrass Part One United 93 represents a complex editing feat, with a structure based on parallel cutting combined with an edgy, hyper-cranked “Cinema Verité...
|
-
|
To launch this column, I’ll write about three cuts from three movies. Two of them are bravura cuts, stand-outs in the history of editing. The third is smaller, less noticeable, but its impact on the future of editing may be just as great. The first cut...
|