Edting film

Walking back from the Berkeley campus earlier today, I stopped in at Analog Books and bought a copy of Michael Ondaatje's The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film (Knopf, 2004). Film editors work from several sources - the screenplay, the rushes, and perhaps a novel or a play from which both derive. They're piecing together a story that has to be told visually and through dialogue, on and off-camera sounds, and music. I never studied film, so I'll be interested to see how Murch approaches it, and also how he compares the editor's role with the director's.

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