"The greatest director in the world today may be able to give a dozen, but there is only one greatest movie editor, that is Walter Murch"
Walter Murch
This is Sogou Encyclopedia's evaluation of Walter Murch. This "godfather" who can be called the editing industry does not disappoint this evaluation; so today we are going to talk about Walter Murch's book "In the Blink of an Eye: Perspective Movie Editing"'s view that "a perfect editing must meet the following six guidelines at the same time."
.Emotional
How does this editing technique affect the audience's emotions in special moments in the film?
telling the emotions contained in the story is the most important part of the editing. We didn't cut one, we need to consider whether it fits the true story emotion.
Ask yourself, does it weaken or strengthen the emotions of the story?
consider whether your editing will pull the audience out of the emotional atmosphere of the story. Merci believes that emotions are something you should keep at all costs. "What do you want the audience to perceive? When watching the movie, if the audience can feel the feeling you want to express from beginning to end, everything you do is worth it. What they ultimately remember is not editing techniques, photography skills, performances, or even stories, but their feelings."
If the video is a clay figure made by Nuwa , then emotions are the drop of water that is enlightened; if the video is the most primitive ingredient, then emotions are the delicious seasoning.
It can be said that the expression and communication of emotions are missing in the editing, so the overall plot is like dry text, so every step in the editing should pay attention to whether the deletion (addition) of this shot affects the expression of emotions, or where to guide emotions. The reason why "I raise you" in " King of Comedy " can become a classic confession clip in the history of film is that the simplest and most sincere expression of love in this plot editing. Only the grouping of the shots of "giving money, not going to work + I raise you + crying" can present such a touching confession; if any group of "giving money, not going to work", "I raise you" or " Cecilia Cheung Tears" is deleted, this touching love will not have the original emotional atmosphere and empathy, and will even become the self-touching of a "scumbag" or a "scumbag".
2. Story plot
editing promotes the development of the storyline?
Every time you cut, you need to push your story forward. Don't let the editing become a barrier to plot development, all subplots should be cut as much as possible, if this scene doesn't drive the story, it should be cut.
Remember Faulkner's words: "You cannot be kind to a woman, you should delete it if you should."
If the plot has not developed at all, your audience will feel embarrassed and tired.
The storyline is an important part and the main element of the film, and the role of editing in this process is to promote the development of the plot.
editing, which means that a large amount of materials shot in the film production will be selected, traded, decomposed and connected. Based on this point, everyone should understand that the materials when shooting movies will not be cut into the main films of the movie. The materials outside the main film are called "repeated films", and the length ratio between the material and the main film is called "film ratio".
When Jiang Wen was filming "Sunny Days", the film ratio was about 100:1, which is enough to show the huge amount of original materials. If it is stuffed into the movie, the plot will become bloated and procrastinated.
"Sunny Days"
Given the limited space, this issue will first introduce to you the first two items of "a perfect editing must meet the following six guidelines at the same time".
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