Title: “Video Editing: Go With The Flow” Author: Bill Davis Magazine Issue: July 2002
This article talks about how a well edited movie can easily “hypnotize” your audience and cause them to just be focused on nothing but the movie just by having great editing even if the plot, acting and other things are not up to par.
The main thing this article talks about it how when editing and putting shots together and going from a moment to moment type of sequence that you can’t leave stuff out because what you see in your head might not what the audience is thinking in their head and thus changing the thought of how that scene progressed and possibly changing the story, but with like everyday things like opening a door, you could probably not have the one quick snippet scene of him/her opening the door handle as many people know what would be happening. Either way it would just make it simpler if you just kept all the little things even if it does take more time in the editing process because by making have a break in the action where certain things are not shown it my take the audience out of that “trance” they are in by amazing editing just by leaving one little things out that could of easily stayed in the film. Obviously though you don’t want a whole lot of unnecessary scenes. “The rule of thumb for scene pacing is the same as in all good moviemaking: if it doesn’t help the audience follow the action or help move the story along, get rid of it.” With what you do put it in make sure you trim and edit to perfection as the editing of a film is crucial to a successful film.