June 2023
Intermediate to advanced
266 pages
7h 45m
English
We will start with “evidentiary editing,” which is the easiest to master. As previously mentioned, this term was coined by author Bill Nichols to refer to a very common mode of editing that uses narration and/or interviews (or the audio generated from interviews) as the anchoring element in sequences that describe a concept or tell a story. The words from the narrator or the interviewees are gently reinforced by images that provide “evidence” for their claims. Evidentiary editing can be interwoven with verité editing and used for sections as short as a few seconds or as long as an entire film. While this term is an academic one and isn’t commonly used in the ...
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