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Video Field Production and Editing, 7th Edition
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Video Field Production and Editing, 7th Edition

by Ronald Compesi
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
480 pages
14h 2m
English
Focal Press
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CHAPTER 9

Editing Aesthetics

 

 

 

Editing is an invisible art. When it is done well, it is hardly noticed—yet almost every visual message in television and film has been edited.

If we define editing as the process of selecting and ordering shots, we can identify two kinds of video editing: editing done during a program’s production and editing done after the program has been videotaped. This latter type of editing is called postproduction editing.

Television directors have always had the ability to choose and order the shots within a program. Until the advent of postproduction editing, these decisions were made live, as the program was being taped or broadcast. The signals from several television cameras were simultaneously fed into a video ...

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ISBN: 9781317351108