The relationship between editor and director The art of editing is an illusive one. The art of choosing the best shots and the best angles and putting the story together is only the beginning of what it takes to be a great film editor. It is the art of storytelling in a visual way. “There are two principal ways of considering editing as connective or as expressive. Editing can be predominantly connective or may appear so, but in fact be subtly expressive. Editing may express or connect ‘invisibly’ or seamlessly, but it may also be graphically, temporally, spatially and/or rhythmically stations. Of course, invisibility is relative and depends on a “norm” which is taken to be classical continuity editing.” (Film Editing: The Art of the Expressive, Valerie Orpen)
Editing is a connective experience that thrives on communication and understanding with the director.
The making of film is a collaborative work. The final product is a combined effort of working with many people. The editor is the final piece of the filmmaking process, the one responsible to put everything together, giving sense to it. They the responsibility to making the right
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One of the notes that the director gave me was that essentially the emotions of the film wasn’t right, but she never really told me what were the emotions that I should aim for in the