Acknowledgements

I wish to thank the supportive team of publishing professionals at Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group who helped to make this new and improved fourth edition a reality. I would particularly like to thank Simon Jacobs and John Makowski, who worked diligently to get this new edition off the ground. I hope our efforts continue to honor the legacy of Roy Thompson, who penned the first edition so many years ago. The goal we all share in producing this book is to get the pertinent information about editing motion media pieces into the minds and hands of the next generation of visual storytellers. I hope that this revised fourth edition continues to inform and inspire all of those readers who are just beginning their creative journey into the world of motion media production.

As an Associate Professor of Film Production and Visual Media Writing at Framingham State University, I benefit from being surrounded by fellow educators and a lively and engaged population of students in the communication arts. The environment fosters much innovation and many new approaches to teaching and learning about our discipline. I wish to acknowledge the support of my colleagues and the helpful contributions from all of my students over the years. The same goes for my experiences when teaching at Boston University and at the Boston University Center for Digital Imaging Arts. A collective thank you to everyone who has added to my growth as an educator and as a motion media producer.

As a media professional, I wish to thank my many collaborators and clients, who have helped me to continue learning and to explore new techniques in telling their unique stories.

I am also grateful to the fourth edition’s proposal and manuscript reviewers for their helpful suggestions and critiques. A special thank you goes out to Katarina Damjanov, Adam Davis, David E. Elkins, Jeffrey Hill, and Juli S. Pitzer.

Additionally, I would like to thank my on-camera talent for their time and cooperation:

The majority of images in this edition have been created by the author, but a significant set of new pictures have been donated by several of my students who now do visual communication, photography, and design work professionally. I would like to thank the following individuals for sharing their creative works and for also manufacturing topic-related images that help to illustrate the film language content in this book: Zach Benard, Anthony Martel, and Mike Neilan.

The line art diagrams and the majority of the hand-drawn illustrations are also by the author. Once again, I must offer my thanks and appreciation to Jean Sharpe, who donated her time and skills to illustrating much of the second edition; some of those illustrations are reproduced here to continue their useful purpose.

Finally, I acknowledge my family for their support and offer an extra special thank you to Emily Klamm, who has been there through the thick and thin of it all – again.

This book is for all people who wish to learn the basics about communicating visually through motion pictures – especially the editing process. I hope you have fun and enjoy the ride. If you would like to learn more about the topic, find additional resources, or contact the author, please visit the author’s website: www.fellswaycreatives.com.

For Emily & Jinx & Sparky