Film Editing

On the 11 th of December we were guest treated by a film editor named Laurie McDowell who came to talk to our media class about the illusion film art of editing for films and music videos. It was a very informal discussion on the concepts of editing itself such as how editing is used to tell the story using the transitions of clever editing techniques like action match to smooth the audience from one cut to another and the important understanding of how editing is an illusionary film art that cuts to where it really counts of the drama in between the dialogue.

The most important comment that I found was to film a sequence several times from different camera angles so as not to bore the audience with a still frame of the performance and continuity editing.

He also explained the use of editing in music videos to engage and distort the audience but stressed the importance of cutting with the music, beat and lyrics with graphic images and creating escapism through the music with fast pace action.