From the course: Filmmaking Forum: Scene Analysis

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A conversation with editor Sofi Marshall

A conversation with editor Sofi Marshall

From the course: Filmmaking Forum: Scene Analysis

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A conversation with editor Sofi Marshall

- Sofi, thank you so much for showing us that scene. Can you tell us a little bit about how you got involved with this film? - Yeah, so the film is Wild Canaries, and it's a sort of murder-mystery that happens in hipster Brooklyn, and I think I met the filmmakers at Sundance, and they had seen a couple of my previous films, and we had a bunch of mutual friends. They, you know, decided to bring me on. I read the script and I loved it, and I had seen some of their other work, and I thought they were really talented as well, and yeah, so that's kind of how I got on the project. - And then, specifically, in this scene, you know, it's very interesting because there's a lot being conveyed visually, and there's not too much in the way of dialogue. So, if you could just take us through, kind of what your initial goals were with this scene, and all of the ways you were able to achieve this sort of tension, that would be great. - Yeah, I mean, this scene, I think was like, the scene of the…

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