2Starting to Edit
Understanding the Task ahead
“It’s as if somebody gave you all the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and no picture of what the puzzle is supposed to look like. Maybe there’s three or four jigsaw puzzles all mixed up. You’ve got to put all those pieces together and make a picture.”
—Geof Bartz1
Now that we have broken down our rushes into shorter manageable sequences, we are ready to start cutting. It’s worth taking some time to think about how our edited sequences will fit together to make the finished film; laying out the pieces of the jigsaw so to speak, before putting the picture together.
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