Joe Walker Edits Life in a Day

March 18, 2011, 07:38 AM

http://www.moviemaker.com/editing/article/life_in_...

Editing a narrative feature is difficult enough. The logistics of it have the potential to be frustrating--the clips aren’t labelled well enough, so you can’t find that one shot you really like, and when you do find it, you can’t use it because Character A’s hair isn’t the same as in the rest of the scene. There’s a dinner scene where Character B’s eyeline is off, but you can’t cut it because then the rhythm gets thrown off and Character B’s confession to Character C in the thi...