Contents
Chapter 1. What Is This All About?
1.2 Do You Really Want to Be an Editor?
1.3 Why You Might Just Listen to Me
1.5 How to Use This Book and Its Data
1.6 Let’s Get Limbered Up—Material for the Exercises
1.7 How to Join This Happy Band
Chapter 2. Shots, Our Building Blocks
Chapter 3. Joining Shots Together
3.2 Joining Shots Together, the Don’ts
3.3 Key Points—Joining Shots Together, the Don’ts
3.4 Joining Shots Together, the Dos
3.5 Key Points—Joining Shots Together, the Dos
Chapter 4. Dealing with Dialogue
4.1 Fundamentals of Editing Speech
4.4 Key Points—Dealing with Dialogue
5.2 Eliminating Unnecessary Pauses
5.8 Key Points—Creating Sequences
6.2 Scene Assembly Fundamentals
6.3 Key Points—Scene Construction
Chapter 7. Joining Scenes Together
7.1 Scene Transitions—A Look at the Range of Possibilities
7.2 Repeated Transitions—Cross-Cutting (or Parallel Action)
7.3 Key Points—Joining Scenes Together
Chapter 8. Different Programme Styles
8.6 Key Points—Different Programme Styles
9.10 More Specialised Sound Processing
9.11 Additional Dialogue Recording
Chapter 10. Music, Music, Music
10.1 An Introduction to Music in the Movies
10.2 A Brief History of Music in the Movies
10.4 A Spoonful of Music Theory
10.5 Key Points—Music, Music, Music
11.4 Dream and Nightmare—Examples
11.7 Montage with and without Music
11.10 Some Exercises for You to Try
Chapter 12. Video Manipulation
12.3 Types of Key—Luminance, Chroma, and Matte
12.6 Multilayer Video Sticking Plaster
12.8 Effects—Those You Should Carry with You
12.9 Key Points—Video Manipulation
Chapter 13. Editorial Responsibility
13.1 Editorial Responsibility—An Introduction
13.3 The Range of Compliance Categories
13.6 Key Points—Editorial Responsibility
14.2 An Editing Schedule for Still Open All Hours (2014)
14.3 An Editing Schedule for Rock n’ Chips (2010)
Chapter 15. Projects—Crossing Ts and Dotting Is
15.5 Capturing Multicamera Material
15.9 Top and Tails: Leaders, Titles, and Clean Elements
15.14 Key Points—Projects—Crossing Ts and Dotting Is
16.2 Elements That Are Worth Keeping
Chapter 17. My Last Bits of Advice
17.1 The Day-to-Day Use of the Edit Suite
Appendix 1. Loading the Exercise Media