#Film Editing

[cuminhoid]

i love jangobi because their One scene was put there to contrast Obi-Wan and Anakin's respective missions but because they did that by cutting between Kamino and the dinner scene we are so much more fervent about the ship

[luzzarm]

Hal B. Wallis, Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin

1949

Dean looking like a proud father while Wallis is checking that he doesn't destroy the crap out of it

[rozzychan]

Yuzuru Hanyu is one of my favorite skaters. Heck, he is one of my favorite DANCERS. And now that he has stopped competing, he has spent more time working on video editing.

So this is a video movie / self-edit he made of himself skating to a song with editing techniques.

I love the text thrown in everywhere, reminds me of my favorite anime.

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Persuasion (1995, Roger Michell)

01/10/2024

[mickey-flicks]

↳  Some things there's no moving on from. And I think that's a good thing.

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) dir. Martin McDonagh

[editingmodulations]

Director Ari Aster, really knows how to get inside the audience head, with camera tricks, powerful soundtrack, stellar performances and most of all engaging transitions. In the film Beau is Afraid, he plays with match cuts to illustrate the pass of time, but in a dramatic way, invisible cuts and digital alteration of space and time.

Editor Lucian Johnston plays along with director Aster, in order to deliver a hard to watch film.

[fleshadept]

fun fact a huge reason why editing, despite being one of the most important jobs in filmmaking next to writing, directing, and cinematography, is largely ignored and unrecognized is because it was seen as women’s work for a long time. people learn about kubrick and hitchcock and spielberg and scorsese, but do you know thelma schoonmaker, who was scorsese’s editor for over 50 years?

the term “film editor” was first used to describe margaret booth, who worked in the film industry between 1915 and 1987. because of the low value of the position and her ultimate high level position at MGM, it’s estimated that there’s hundreds of films out there she worked on uncredited. she shaped the craft.

jaws was going to be a terrible movie until spielberg’s editor, verna fields, showed him what it could feel like if they avoided showing the shark itself and instead focused on reactions and POVs. she had her own editing lab at home, which if you don’t know what editing labs looked like before digital editing, was insane. she pioneered the fucking natural wipe transition that’s used in pretty much every movie today. she tutored george and marcia lucas! also her nickname was the “mother cutter” which is just badass

marcia lucas, by the way, was george lucas’s story and film editor. it’s pretty well known by now that most of the parts that made star wars strong came from her. the problem with attribution between them eventually led to their divorce, as george lucas kept getting credit for her ideas and skill.

when people think of filmmakers, they think of writers and directors and actors, but there are three phases to making a movie: pre-production, production, and post production, and by and large the reason post production is forgotten i because it was a women’s job for a long time—made easier because they could put the women in a dark room where they didn’t have to see them. but without editors movies would just be a bunch of separate, out of order video and audio clips in a huge folder. in the same way you can’t have a movie without a script or actors or a camera, you cannot have a movie without editors. and they should not be forgotten to time in favor of the male auteurs who took or received most of the credit

[blatterpussbunnyfromhell]

Edited the first sequence of my short film this afternoon. Still have 9 sequences to go.

[feral-renaissance-cat]

Hey guess who was cleaning out their files and found stuff from their film editing course?

This was the last of a three-part final where we had to take scenes from existing movies and recut them into short format videos, in this case into a theatrical trailer. When I saw Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield were on the list of available films my found-footage-loving heart couldn’t resist.

[lilithsaintcrow]

"“Ferris Bueller’s first cut ran two hours and 45 minutes and didn’t work at all,” says Boyd, and its only hope lay in the editing room."

[citizenscreen]

Remembering film editor Dede Allen, born 100 years ago today. #botd

Allen edited films such as The Hustler (1961), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Serpico (1973, Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

[ivebeentotheforest]

Dune: Part 2

Trailer 2 (left)

Trailer 3 (right)

[scattered-irises]

V Days of V: Day V!

I present to you a video essay on the intricacies of editing behind V and Kaito's duels. This was an optional final project for an editing class. I hope you enjoy!

Happy V/V!

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Separate Lies (2005, Julian Fellowes)

17/08/2024

[mickey-flicks]

↳  If punching a policeman is a sin, we may as well just pack up and go home.

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) dir. Martin McDonagh