A Foreword by Simon Ashcroft

What a great thing it is to be an editor. It’s taking a seat in a comfy air-conditioned room from which you go looking down a telescope at the whole gamut of production processes that have brought a film or programme to you.

From the original spark of an idea to the delivery of words and pictures on camera, it is you, often working alone, that must weave a well-told story from the numerous strands of audio and visual media in your care. Everybody involved in a production, both in front of and behind the camera, will be depending on you to show off their work at its best, often making their work appear better than ...

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