Cutting Rhythms: Shaping the Film Edit
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (910 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0240810147 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 300 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Karen Pearlman is Head of Screen Studies at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, and a freelance film editor who cuts drama, documentary, and experimental projects. She has edited many award-winning shorts, and is also co-founder of The Physical TV Company, which specializes in the creation of dance on screen.
Faced with hundreds of hours of raw footage, a film editor must craft the pieces into a coherent whole. This book offers possibilities rather than prescriptions. Rhythm is a fundamental tool of the film editor; when a filmmaker adjust the length of shots in relation to one another, he or she affects the entire pace, structure, and mood of the film. Until this book, rhythm was considered a matter of intuition; good editors should just 'know' when to make a cut.Cutting Rhythms breaks down the issue of rhythm in an accessible way that allows filmmakers to apply the principles to their own work and increase their creativity. It presents questions editors or filmmakers can ask themselves about their work, and a clear and useful vocabulary for working with those questions.Filled with timeless principles and thought-provoking examples from a variety of international films, this book is destined to become a staple in the filmmaker's library.. There are many books on the technical aspects of film and video editing: e.g., how to use software packages like Final Cut Pro and Avid. Much rarer are books on how an editor thinks and makes decisions
Fred said Editing as Dance Choreography? Yes!. The least you need to know is that Cutting Rhythms is an interesting book. I say this in the same way I would say watching bacteria replicate is interesting i.e. genuinely so. This book reads like the thesis work it started out as. Author Karen Pearlman apparently got interested in the science and art of dancing and bodies in motion then, like a true academic, decided to see if sh. Nate said Not really a textbook or "how-to" guide, but very intriguing contribution to thinking about editing, with practical implications. "Cutting Rhythms" is not a manual of techniques, but is a very helpful introduction to a host of considerations that get hardly any attention in other manuals. For example, Pearlman gives a very thoughtful analysis of the difference between pacing generated by different planes of action within a shot and pacing generated at the level of cutting. Her focus, as suggested by the titl. John A. Suda said Surprisingly good and useful conceptual effort about film editing. "Cutting Rhythms: Shaping the Film Edit" is a very effective attempt to articulate intellectually the purported pure "intuition" and "gut feelings" editors use in cutting a film. Whereas most editors and film makers cannot explain well why their editing choices are made, author, Karen Pearlman, creates a clear and useful vocabulary which breaks down editing decision-making to read
The most powerful aspect of the craft is also toughest to explain. "A pioneering effort to capture lighting in a bottle. In fact, it is her work as a dancer and how it informs her thinking about editing that makes this book such an original and refreshing contribution to the literature."--Reviewed in onscreenPearlman author of Cutting Rhythms interviewed in Spike Magazine. Pearlman's introduction of dance and movement theory is impressively leveraged for exploration and her cognitive-developmental approach is solidly grounded. No serious student of editing will come away from this book untouched."Loren S. Miller, Instructor, Emerson College"Pearlman combines her knowledge, skills and experience from her different creative and educational practices in this book