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I asked you what you thought are some of
the best editing advice
and I compiled a list of seven things
you can do instantly
to bring your cutting skills
to the next level.
I wanna preface this by saying that these
of course are just opinions, and editing
is an art form, so there are exceptions
to the rules. And you might as well...
"Do whatever you want."
Many editors start out with a fat timeline
and they whittle it down to uncover
the good stuff.
It's inefficient and you likely settle for
"OK-moments", because you actually have to
use up energy to do some trimming.
Instead, try building your scenes from
the ground up, with only your best shots
and keep adding.
You might find that this method is
actually a tremendous time-saver,
and it triggers some
really interesting storytelling.
"This is the coolest fucking story I've
ever heard in my entire life!
It's insane!
Can I hear it again?"
This is a dog. What we hear and
what we see should be one.
"Flamingos hold their bills upside down
while feeding."
If I talk about the migration patterns
of flamingos and show this:
It's kind of hard for you to process both.
"What?!"
It's the audiovisual communication scissor.
If the two pieces of information drift
apart too far, they're hard to process.
So cut picture and sound in a way
that the information converges.
"Forget about the fact you're coming
a little late to the party."
"That's what I say."
"Should we hit the Dresden?"
"This place is dead anyway, man."
Just like a party, come late and leave early.
Often times it makes sense
to cut scenes short.
Forget about the long winding setup
and an ending that fizzles.
Get right to where it starts
to become interesting.
If you keep the tention up and prevent
the audience from taking a breezer, the
overall flow of the story will unfold
in a way so that the audience never
has a chance to get ahead of it.
"Do you know what they call a
quarter pounder of cheese in Paris?"
But of course, if you have amazing
set-ups that reveal character and engross
the audience, disregard this rule.
"The royale with cheese."
And if you'd like to see me cut a scene
that way, I'll leave a link here in
the video description.
"...starting right in the middle of it.
We're looking for tension."
Treat a cut to mean "Look over here."
Every time you make a cut, you're telling
the audience: "This matters."
Also, you might have heard David Fincher
talk about the importance of a close-up.
"Every time you go to a close-up, the
audience knows, subconciously, that you've
made an editorial decision, you've said:
"Look at this, this is important."
Everything that is a close-up is important,
whether it is important or not.
You can run an audience ragged
by showing them things that are
supposedly important."
And that leads us straight to tip No. 5:
Don't be afraid to use your editing
power for misdirects.
Showing things in close-up
that are not important.
Using wide shots to allow the audience
to figure things out for themselves;
withholding information, like a
reverse angle that would reveal how
a character feels, are all tools you can
use to keep your editing unexpected.
Because storytelling needs to be plausible
yet surprising.
Look for the eyes.
That was one of the first videos
that I made, the eye movement on the
actors and how that can inform the editing.
"Our blinking is tied to what we're
thinking and how we're reacting to what's
happening around us."
So, in other words, when the actors blink,
especially good actors, you could use that
as a potential cut point.
"People's gonna have to empty their own night jars, 'tis my point."
"I try to hit the stop button just ahead
of where they blink, so the frame before
they blink. That's a way I have of tuning
my reactions to the unconscious
reactions of this actor to his character."
"Don't you see? I'm not a fake! Not about this!"
This is from Walter Murch, from his book
"In The Blink Of An Eye", and I'll leave a
link in the video description,
I highly recommend this book.
Feel your edit.
There's no specific universal, logical
time to cut other than the moment
it feels right to you.
Editing is something that's very much
intuitive, and the more you do it, the
more you can trust your sort of
professional emotions that
you've developed.
Your mirror neurons are very highly tuned
looking at things, watching things
and feeling things.
So don't be afraid to make cuts that rationally make
no sense, they just feel right to you.
"Yeah, I probably want another
reaction shot of her."
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