From the course: Creating a Short Film: 08 Editing

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Creating an assembly edit

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Creating an assembly edit

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- Usually the first big goal for an editor is to create something called an assembly edit. This is kind of like a rough version of the movie. A really really rough version of the movie. There's also a version that we'll make later and we'll talk about that later in the series called the "rough cut", but even the rough cut is a lot more refined than the assembly edit is. And assembly edit really is an edit of the film that we just put the pieces together as we shot it. At this point the editor is not being creative, we're not taking chunks out of the film yet, we're not showing it to other people to get feedback. I mean it's a very very rough patchwork edit of the film. And, usually we don't even have a temp score. A temp score is temporary music that we put in to give the impression of what the movie should feel like. But that's not even there in the assembly edit, we don't use sound effects, the color is still usually ugly, audio is still ugly. And so again the assembly edit is just…

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