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July 7, 2012, 4:17 pm
In "The 'Invisible Art': A Woman's Touch Behind the Scenes," a May 25, 2012 NY Times article, John Anderson writes about the deficit of women DPs (2) and directors (0) in this year's 22 nominated features for the penultimate of film festivals – Cannes. This lack reflects the still abysmal statistics for ASC (American Society...
October 3, 2012, 9:22 pm
Ken Lee, who is the editor for Michael Wiese Productions (MWP), my publisher announced that if you click this link you will get to download thirty pages free of the e-book Instant Filmmaker by Christopher Nolan. Yes MWP wants to get their emailing list up. And yes, it's free. So choose to click or not...
September 27, 2012, 3:00 pm
Today's post concludes the Letterman-style countdown designed to counteract the misconceptions held by way too many people. 5. Putting footage together is a no brainer. Au contraire. I, and filmmakers far greater than me, believe that editing is what set filmmaking apart from other arts. Editing mimics thought. It accomplishes this with the selection of...
September 18, 2012, 2:49 pm
In talking about my upcoming editing course debuting in October, friends suggested that I write down the most serious misconceptions about editing. So here's the list - a Letterman-style countdown – to combat the delusions and set down the realities of editing today. 10. Editing requires no planning You need to backward engineer your show...
September 4, 2012, 4:19 pm
The image from the last post is a popular misconception of what editors do to actors - leave them on the cutting room floor in a heap of film. Wrong on so many levels! We cut digitally, not on film these days. We are the actor's best friend (more below). While an editor may participate...
August 28, 2012, 10:20 pm
This is the image a lot of people have of editors. But we know better. More in next post which will look at the editor-actor relationship.
August 20, 2012, 7:28 pm
I received an email from Linton Davies and an invitation to download his book for free for review purposes. Glad I took this UK editor up on his offer. The Editing of Star Wars: How Cutting Created a Classic offers insights to Star Wars fan boys and girls as well as professional editors. I learned...
August 14, 2012, 3:00 pm
I've been authoring books, blogging on this site, and writing articles for MovieMaker and other magazines: Now it's time to take my show on the road and actually interact with some people. So I've created a four-session evening course that the Community Ed wing of Santa Rosa Jr. College (in Santa Rosa, CA) has been...
August 1, 2012, 8:06 pm
As a regular blogger on my own website, I regularly receive offers from companies to write guest blogs. Most I reject as too "market" in tone or not "on subject" to you - my readers - or me. This post via Josh Bristol, PR Coordinator for SocialMonsters, was one of the exceptions. It details the...
July 25, 2012, 3:18 pm
Enjoy this droll tutorial by Cooper Kingston who demonstrates how easy it would be to cut if there if there was one all-purpose edit button. His tutorial also demonstrates how imagining a renderless system should be made a reality in the future.
July 17, 2012, 8:10 am
The MPEG posed this question to its 6200 members as part of its 75th anniversary observation this year. See what you think of the results, published in the May edition of "CineMontage," the guild's monthly magazine: Breaking down the choices Though the picks range from 1924-2011, they're a bit heavy on the last few years...
Gordon sits down with Marco Capalbo to discuss editing for Werner Herzog and crafting Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds. ...
Editor Mikeel Nielsen and Sound Designer Nicolas Becker discuss creating the film The Sound of Metal. We explore how to make ...
Jody McVeigh-Schultz and Lane Farnham discuss tackling HBO's documentary series McMillion$, a series that explores the f ...
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