Joe Walker on the Mistake New Editors Make

October 30, 2018, 08:55 AM

https://www.mentorless.com/2018/10/30/editor-joe-w...

I listened to an interview with Joe Walker, Steve McQueen, and Denis Villeneuve go-to editor, who explained his process working with these two directors, that consists in doing a lot of pre-screenings throughout the whole editing to get a chemical feel of how the audience is reacting, and in working with little footage. (Walker called McQueen and Villeneuve “economical” directors who shoot with a single camera 3 to 4 takes, which already lays out a lot of the groundwork for him.)