FILM EDITING RESOURCES
Update 20 February 2009
Academy Awards in Editing. At the official Academy of Motion Pictures Website (http://www.oscar.com/), you can locate information about the history of the association, the past winners and current nominees (http://www.oscars.org/awardsdatabase/index.html), and rules governing the award categories--among other things.
American Cinema Editors' Honorary Society includes general information about the organization and editing, career information, and hosts the journal, Cinemeditor. Here's the ACE site on Career Information for Film Editors.
- Australian Screen Editors (ASE) is a commercial site devoted to the art and craft of film, video, and nonlinear editing. "AUSTRALIAN SCREEN EDITORS ... is a cultural, professional and educational organisation, dedicated to the pursuit and recognition of excellence in the arts, sciences and technology of motion picture film and televisual post production. It aims to promote, improve and protect the role of editor as an essential and significant contributor to all screen productions."
- Books on editing
- The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (USA, Wendy Apple, 2004). See the You-Tube excerpts of this film: Part I (10 mins) | Part II (4 mins) | Part III (if the URL has changed, just put the movie title, or part of it, in the You-Tube search window, and you'll find it).
EDITING SYSTEMS: Adobe Premier Editing | Avid Media Composer | Final Cut Pro
GREAT EDITORS: Walter Murch | Thelma Schoonmaker
VIDEO CLIPS/LECTURES ON EDITING:
- Walter Murch at FilmSound.Com
- Walter Murch at BAFTA, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the British equivalent to our Academy of Motion Picture Arts, which awards the Oscars (~40 mins, a Google Video that can be downloaded to an Ipod - you can also search Google videos with "Walter+Murch+Lecture" to get this). Part 1 of 2 videos of his lecture in 2003, the 100th anniversary of film editing). Murch gives an interesting history of, and recounts achievements in, the art of editing (tells when the "clapstick" came in, includes a clip from Thomas Edison), and then explains what he knows about editing and the work he has done editing films like The Unbearable Lightness of Being (more clips). Fascinating! (He compares editing to music, calling the "frame" an eighth note).
- Walter Murch at BAFTA, Part 2 (~50 mins). The first 10 mins are for a Q&A (question and answer) session. Examples: "How do you judge editing?" Or, how do you know the editing job is good? ("The prize is given for the best collision of images.") Discusses The Godfather, music and sound effects. Discusses digital sound editing. Discusses The Conversation.
- Floren's compilation of Videos on Editing.
MEDIA LITERACY.
The University of Oregon's Media Literacy Project Online links the user to media literacy resources worldwide. top
Created 27 July 2000. Revised 20 February 2009
Gloria Floren, Letters Department, MiraCosta College, One Barnard Drive, Oceanside, California 92056.
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