Cutting For Impact: A Conversation W/ Verna Fields

August 25, 2010, 12:10 AM

http://www.fathom.com/feature/122531/

In 1975, Verna Fields won an Oscar for her work editing Jaws, largely due to her discovery that what viewers created in their heads could be much more frightening than what they could have seen on the screen. By editing around the shark, Fields maximized suspense by postponing the viewer's encounter until the third act.

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