Comments on: Dead is the king. http://www.jaa-editing.com/wordpress/2008/02/dead-is-the-king/ The blog of Judith Allen - freelance editor, NFTS Graduate. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:12:23 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Judith http://www.jaa-editing.com/wordpress/2008/02/dead-is-the-king/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Judith Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:41:41 +0000 http://www.jaa-editing.com/wordpress/?p=7#comment-3 Well the advantage of being at film school in an editing class with five others is that we all quite quickly learnt to watch each other's work from the early stages through to the finished product and see the potential/ themes that we were bringing out (often with the same material in the early exercises). Even so, it's still tricky when you know that the sequence you're showing is nowhere near where you want it to be. But it's more of a distribution issue - exercises are copyrighted by the original filmmakers, and films made at the school are subject to all sorts of restrictions on uploading because of past problems. A few years ago one of the documentaries made here got short-listed for an Oscar, but then it was disqualified because the filmmaker had uploaded it on to youtube to show his friends and family. Since then it's become quite difficult to even get material from a film approved by the school for showreel uploads! But anyway, thanks for your comment and I hope you keep reading when I have something more to say! Well the advantage of being at film school in an editing class with five others is that we all quite quickly learnt to watch each other’s work from the early stages through to the finished product and see the potential/ themes that we were bringing out (often with the same material in the early exercises). Even so, it’s still tricky when you know that the sequence you’re showing is nowhere near where you want it to be.

But it’s more of a distribution issue – exercises are copyrighted by the original filmmakers, and films made at the school are subject to all sorts of restrictions on uploading because of past problems. A few years ago one of the documentaries made here got short-listed for an Oscar, but then it was disqualified because the filmmaker had uploaded it on to youtube to show his friends and family. Since then it’s become quite difficult to even get material from a film approved by the school for showreel uploads!

But anyway, thanks for your comment and I hope you keep reading when I have something more to say!

]]> By: beowulf.grimbly http://www.jaa-editing.com/wordpress/2008/02/dead-is-the-king/comment-page-1/#comment-2 beowulf.grimbly Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:32:21 +0000 http://www.jaa-editing.com/wordpress/?p=7#comment-2 Just wanted to say, really enjoying your blog. I wanted to comment on this post first, because it's editing of drama which I'm most interested (and least experienced) in. Like you say, it can't be learned by reading about it, but I do enjoy reading about the challenges (and successes!) of editing fiction. Sometimes those techniques can also be applied to documentaries, as you mentioned. Don't know if you would ever consider posting examples, eg. "before & after" edits? It could be quite enlightening. Though I know most editors are loath to show unfinished work to anyone but their producer (or instructor)! Just wanted to say, really enjoying your blog.

I wanted to comment on this post first, because it’s editing of drama which I’m most interested (and least experienced) in. Like you say, it can’t be learned by reading about it, but I do enjoy reading about the challenges (and successes!) of editing fiction. Sometimes those techniques can also be applied to documentaries, as you mentioned.

Don’t know if you would ever consider posting examples, eg. “before & after” edits? It could be quite enlightening. Though I know most editors are loath to show unfinished work to anyone but their producer (or instructor)!

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