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Basic editing: Laying the foundation

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Basic editing: Laying the foundation

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- Once you've organized your assets, it's time to start planning your edit. How will you structure the footage into scenes, sequences and story? Depending on the project, this plan can vary widely. If you're editing a narrative project, you've obviously got a very real starting place, the script. The script provides a groundwork for the dialogue and main action needed to create the scene, but it is largely up to the editor to choose the best shots, analyze the best takes and organize them in a way to produce the strongest emotional impact and to shape the timing and pacing to give the scene life. There are a lot of choices throughout this process. You see, in the world of narrative editing, a scene is shot many different times from many different angles. Wide shots provide context and show the relationship of characters within their environment and between each other. Medium shots are often the standard shots that editors…

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