Book description
This updated and revised new edition of The Healthy Edit provides aspiring and working editors with creative editing strategies they can employ to enhance a film, while also overcoming common production problems. With decades of experience editing and film doctoring Hollywood features, author John Rosenberg reveals both the aesthetic and technical aspects of the editor’s art, demonstrating tricks and techniques for nursing an ailing project back to health. Whether it's a bad performance from an actor, a hole in the story or script, a continuity or pacing issue, or a poorly-composed shot, every film or show we watch encounters challenges during production—and fixing these issues becomes the job of the editor.
Utilizing an approach comparing film editing to medicine, working editor and professor John Rosenberg offers a software-agnostic guide to best editing practices, offering solutions to everything from story and script inconsistencies to genre-specific structural issues. Accessibly-written and brought fully up-to-date to embrace the predominance of file-based digital production, this second edition offers new insights into ultra-high-resolution footage, transitions, visual effects, collaboration, sound and music editing, as well as highlighting historic advances in the art form.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Prescriptions for Success
- 2 Mastering the Art of Film Editing
- 3 The Film Doctor Is In
- 4 The Instruments
- 5 Internal Medicine
- 6 Alternative Medicine
- 7 A Brief History of the Practice
- 8 Genre Editing Styles I
- 9 Genre Editing Styles II
- 10 Genre Editing Styles III
- 11 Surgery
- 12 Psychiatry of Character Disorders—Part I
- 13 Psychiatry of Character Disorders—Part II
- 14 Genetics
- 15 Cardiac Unit
- 16 Rites of Passage
- 17 Imaging
- 18 Audiology
- 19 Bedside Manner
- 20 Triage
- 21 Post-Mortem
- Glossary
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Healthy Edit, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2017
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781315297552
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