In the Blink of an Eye

Chapter 11- Dreaming in Pair's

• The film editor performs the same role for the director as the text editor does for the writer of a book.
• The writer goes off and puts the words together.
• In a film, the editor assembles the images.
• Once the image is described, the listener's job is to propose a imaginary sequence of events based on that fragment.
• Director= Dreamer
• Editor= Listener
• The best directors still have their limits to the imagination and memory, particularly at the level of fine detail. Therefore, the editor's job is to propose alternate scenarios as bait to encourage the sleeping dream to rise to it's defence and thus reveal itself more fully.

Chapter 12- Team Work: Multiple Editors

• Multiple editors are often employed- the advantage of this would be speed and the disadvantage of this would be a lack of coherence.
• How much do you want to achieve in the time you have available.
• If you end up with a cut per day in a film it rates at 1.47, for example the film "Apocalypse" that means that many different avenues have been explore to get the final product.