Tuesday, 21 March 2017

How Does an Editor Think and Feel?

Film editor and theorist, Tony Chou has created a video essay on what choices a film editor makes.

For the past ten years, I’ve been editing professionally. Yet one question always stumps me: “How do you know when to cut?” And I can only answer that it’s very instinctual. On some level, I’m just thinking and feeling my way through the edit. So today, I’d like to describe that process: how does an editor think and feel?



Published on May 12, 2016



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