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Cutting Rhythms, 3rd Edition
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Cutting Rhythms, 3rd Edition

by Karen Pearlman
June 2025
Intermediate to advanced
278 pages
6h 48m
English
Routledge
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CHAPTER 12 Editing Thinking and Onscreen Drafting

DOI: 10.4324/9781003619604-12

Digital tools for screen production are cheaper, higher in quality, and more accessible than they have ever been in the history of film and television. They seem set to continue on that trajectory into the future. But have production pathways shifted to recognize these possibilities? Or are we mostly still emulating the Hollywood “factory” model that was set up when we were shooting on film? Do linear production models reflect the constraints of the old tools rather than the opportunities of new tools for capture, cutting, and exhibition?

The idea of an onscreen draft is a response to these questions. I am taking the notion of “camera stylo”1 or camera-as-pen literally ...

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