Query: as a professonal editor, when do you usually enter the
filmmaking process - already at the pre-production (scripting) stage,
or in post ?
Henry
> I don't know, if this was already mentioned, but as an editor I see
> myself always as the very first viewer. I guess Reisz and Dmytryk
> are referring to the same somehow. In the editing process I prefer
> to cut without the script and also without the sound, building a
> first assemble edit based on my view of the rushes (dailies). The
> scenes definitely change with the director or the producer coming
> in, but lots of times stay. Coming from 35 mm and working on a
> Steenbeck or Kem I got the training to do a cut as precise as
> possible, first not to leave unnecessary scratches on the celluloid,
> second to have the film smooth running through the table, but mainly
> to decide clearly and definite on the cut, the change of angle,etc.
> From my editors I observed a technique of editing backwards, means
> first view the film while it runs through the table and when you
> rewind it take out the parts you want to assemble to the edited
> scene. Still digitally I lots of times cut from the end if the
> material visually flows. (One source of inspiration for digital
> editing is always Walter Murch.)
>
> Andreas Treske
>
>
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