Emerging Alternatives to Continuity Editing: The Director Becomes Editor An early film which demonstrates an alternative to continuity editing is from surrealist Luis Bunuel who directed and edited "Un Chien Andolaou" (An Andalusian Dog) (1929). He worked with fellow...
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The Art Of Film And Video Editing Part-5
Documentary Editing - Where Is the Truth? Pare Lorentz, the most influential documentary filmmaker of the Great Depression of the 1930s, defines a documentary film as "a factual film which is dramatic." There are many different definitions of documentary. Rather than...
The Art Of Film And Video Editing Part-4
Talking Pictures When sound technology was added to film, there were a great many new opportunities for creative story-telling. Ironically the advent of sound made some editors less creative. The sound alone could easily carry the story so the director and editor did...
The Art Of Film And Video Editing Part-3
Soviet Filmmakers Advance Editing Filmmaking spread around the world and D.W. Griffith's techniques were widely studied. In the 1920s Soviet filmmakers were fascinated with editing and the theory of film as a communications and propaganda tool. After the 1917 Russian...
The Art Of Film And Video Editing Part-2
Hollywood Style Continuity Editing Film editors, then and now, strive to make one scene flow easily into the next. To do that, it helps to match the details of one shot with the next. When the details don't match, the viewer can lose his way. Consider a woman smoking...
The Art Of Film And Video Editing Part-1
Introduction Editing is an essential part of making any film or video. As Francis Ford Coppola says, “The essence of cinema is editing. It’s the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general...
Hard Drive Failure For Video Editors
by Dave A. Anselmi Digital Filmmaking & Post http://PracticalMysticProductions.com There is a tremendous amount of bad information and misinformed opinions on the net regarding the longevity of hard-drives. Is an external drive a robust archival solution? Many casual...
Need Better, Cheaper Storage Solution for Video?
Amazon S3 could be just want you need. Amazon and many other large companies like Twitter and SmugMug also use S3. S3 stands for Simple Storage Service. It's an unlimited storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services. Here are some of the things you could do with...
Blu-Ray Test Disc Kit 2nd Edition
Blu-Ray Test Disk and Kit Item #BRD Price: $29.97 Plus $6.45 shipping in the US 90 Day Money Back Guarantee Here's what you get: 1. Blu-Ray Calibration Disc 2. Printed Users' Guide 3.Blue Viewing Filters You've invested in a great HDTV system. Now make it beautiful....
Sony Vegas Pro 9.0
By Edward Troxel Edward has been Using Sony Vegas since 2000 as his video editing platform of choice and has written several automation scripts. Excalibur, and his other scripts, are tightly integrated with Sony Vegas Pro. This plug-in was the first to add...
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