Avid Editing, 6th Edition

10 A Few Editing Tips

You’ve been working on the scene from Where’s the Bloody Money? or the Montage sequence, or perhaps your own project. Let’s say you’ve reached the point where you’re fairly happy with it. Or perhaps you know something is not quite right and you’re not sure what it is. In either case it’s time to get some feedback. That means bringing in friends, classmates, and relatives—whoever you think can help you improve your scene by telling you how he or she honestly feels about your work. But, before you subject yourself to all that honesty, let’s go over a few editing pointers. These may seem obvious, but they have helped my students over some bumps, so perhaps they’ll help you, too.

Figure 10.1 Dan is interrogated by Sarah and ...