June 2023
Intermediate to advanced
266 pages
7h 45m
English
Motion pictures cast a spell on us. They transcend their origins as a series of disconnected moments and feel instead like a seamless experience, a smooth roller coaster ride that pushes us through space and time in a dynamic and satisfying way. Up through the 1950s, the language of editing in mainstream Hollywood filmmaking to achieve this effect was remarkably conservative. “There was almost a formulaic way of presenting films,” says editor Carol Littleton in The Cutting Edge, a 2004 documentary about film editing. “This film language was very strict, and in editorial terms there were rules that one felt could not be broken.” “A master shot had to come first,” elaborates ...
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