Chapter OneEditing Basics
- A Very Brief History of Film Editing
- Factors Affecting Editorial Choices
- The Basic Edit Transitions
- Stages of the Editing Process
When you write, you select words from your vocabulary and put them together in a particular way to construct sentences that will inform, entertain, or evoke emotional responses within the reader. When you edit a motion picture, there is a similar process. You have to select shots and string them together in edited scenes to inform, entertain, or evoke emotional responses within the viewer. In order for your written sentences to make sense to readers you must follow the known and accepted rules of grammar for your written language – word order, verb tense, punctuation, phrase and clause construction, ...
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