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The Practical Guide to Documentary Editing
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The Practical Guide to Documentary Editing

by Sam Billinge
April 2017
Beginner
244 pages
5h 46m
English
Routledge
Content preview from The Practical Guide to Documentary Editing

3Picture Editing

Visual Storytelling

“Obviously great directors give you great material to work with. But the ultimate fi lm that you see is the edited version and the editor is greatly responsible for that.”

—Tom Rolf1

It has been my experience that as soon as I begin to cut shots together in sequence, which is to say to place them in a running order in my timeline, the film immediately comes to life. For the first time, I am seeing something that feels like the real film; something that the audience will one day see on their television screens. Further, there is a surprising, almost magic effect: I am struck by an overwhelming sense of the architecture and flow of the film that could not have been imagined prior to the edit. This surprising ...

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ISBN: 9781351870108