Title Art of the cut : conversations with film and TV editors / Steve Hullfish

Published [place of publication not identified] : Focal, 2017 New York : Routledge, 2017 ©2017

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Description xxi, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.Project Organization -- Cards on a Wall -- Project Organization -- Scene Bin Organization -- Scene Bin Organization with JPEG Markers -- Selects or KEM Rolls -- Sequence Organization -- Organizing a Timeline Layout -- ScriptSync -- 2.Approach to a Scene -- Screening Dailies (Rushes) -- Watching Dailies Backwards -- Finding a Starting Place -- Fast and Rough to Start -- Using Select Reels -- 3.Pacing and Rhythm -- Pacing Is Musical -- What Determines Pacing? -- Letting It Breathe -- Pacing Due to Screen Size -- 4.Structure -- Length of First Assembly -- Working the First Assembly -- Hitting Beats -- Structure -- Intercutting -- Killing Your Babies and Eliminating Shoe Leather -- Screening -- First Assembly in TV -- 5.Storytelling -- Editing Is Foundational to Storytelling -- Speaking into the Script -- Character -- Perspective -- Structure -- A Student of Story -- 6.Performance -- Editing as Stewardship -- Finding the Performance -- Contents note continued: Performance That Tells the Story -- Shaping Performance -- Editing Bracketed Performance -- Using Audio from Different Takes Than Picture -- Split Screen: The Invisible Weapon -- Performance Needs Context -- 7.Sound Design -- Sound to Sell Visual Edits -- Selling the Environment -- Collaboration with Sound Team and Assistants -- ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) -- 8.Music -- The Purpose of Temp Music -- Choosing Temp Music -- Cutting without Temp -- Songs and Diegetic or "Source" Music -- Temping a Franchise Film -- Using Score -- 9.Collaboration -- Landing the Gig -- Styles of Collaboration -- Notes -- Social Skills -- Don't Edit the Way You Think the Director Wants -- TV's Collaborative Environment -- 10.Documentary -- Schedule -- Approaching the Material -- ScriptSync -- Shot Selection -- Pacing and Rhythm -- Structure -- Sound Design -- Music -- Collaboration -- Notes and Revisions -- Miscellaneous Documentary Wisdom -- 11.Miscellaneous Wisdom -- Contents note continued: How Did You Break into the Business? -- Emotion -- Geography -- Learn from Your Mistakes -- How Do You Judge the Editing of Others? Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Motion pictures -- Editing. Motion picture editors -- Interviews. Television programs -- Editing. Television producers and directors -- Interviews. Genre/Form Interviews. Interviews. LC no. 2016042588 ISBN 1138238651 (hardback) (alkaline paper) 113823866X (paperback) (alkaline paper) 9781138238657 (hardback) (alkaline paper) 9781138238664 (paperback) (alkaline paper) (ebook)

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