ANIM 30102Storyboarding

Advanced Story Structure

Week 11Fall 2013

EDITING

“For a writer it’s a word. For a composer or musician it’s a note. For an editor and a filmmaker it’s the frame.

The one frame off or two frames added or two frames less is the difference between a sour note and a sweet note.”

Quentin Tarantino

Kubrick

THE MOST IMPORTANT requirement for editing is objectivity.

No matter how much difficulty you had in obtaining a particular shot, the audience will never know.

You may have been full of enthusiasm during the filming of a particular shot, but if that enthusiasm doesn’t show on the screen, you must be objective enough to cut it.

Akira Kurosawa

Top Tips

“Temp music is a crutch”

“Temp music is a crutch”

Absolutely

Overlap the sound

Overlap a piece of the sound or picture from the previous scene.

Rarely do the sound and picture cut at the same time.

Emotional cuts allow for minor

continuity errors.Where will the audience be looking?

Walter Murch

1. EmotionHow will this cut affect the audience emotionally at this

particular moment in the film?

2. Story Does the edit move the story forward

in a meaningful way?

3. RhythmIs the cut at a point that makes rhythmic sense?

4. Eye TraceHow does the cut affect the location

and movement of the audience's focus in that particular film?

5. Two Dimensional Place of ScreenIs the axis followed properly?

6. Three Dimensional SpaceIs the cut true to established physical and spacial

relationships?