From the course: Foundations of Video: The Art of Editing
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Understanding the value of recutting
From the course: Foundations of Video: The Art of Editing
Understanding the value of recutting
There's an expression that a film is written three times. Once in a script, another time in the shooting, and finally, in the editing. This means that editing is really a process of re-writing. On a typical film, we may have several dozen cuts of each scene before we're satisfied enough to finish editing. A moment that we call picture lock, and move on to the sound and the music. Why so many? Well, to begin, the first cut of a film will usually have every line of dialogue, every scene in the script, edited in the order that the original script laid it out. But many things change on the way from script to screen. You may find that actors are so good that they make certain lines redundant. Or you'll find that your director might not have been particularly sharp on that day or you as the editor, might not have been sharp. It's so hard getting the movie shot every day, that there are hundreds of ways that the material can fall short of the original idea. In fact, you may find that the…
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