Chapter 15
Dialog Editors
Hollywood's Unsung Heroes
“Good dialog editing is like a form of magic—you carefully weave the tracks like a sleight-of-hand to create an illusion transparency. If you do your job right—nobody notices what you've done.”
– Dwayne Avery, M.P.S.E.
Dialog editor
How many times have you sat in the theatre, enjoying the movie, and sighed with admiration for the dialog editor's skill and handiwork? “Wow, that was great cross-filled presence. It's so transparent, you can't even tell the difference between those two angles.”
Of course you don't. If you did notice, it was not because the dialog editor did a good job; it would be because the dialog editor did a poor one. Dialog editing is an invisible art form. If the work is good, ...
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