In The Blink Of An Eye

I have read the book In The Blink Of An Eye By Walter Murch (2001) it gave me tips about film editing and post production.

"Don't feel you have to cut because you are being paid to. You are being paid to make decisions"

I think this is important as sometimes, as I feel some clips are cut in both professional and my own work, just because there are another shot of the same footage, when keeping one long take you can create a better effect, that is more visually interesting.

He also goes on to talk about what the criteria for his ideal cut is, these six things are (in order of importance) 1) emotion 2) Story 3) Rhythm 4) Eye-Trace 5) Two-Dimensional plane of screen 6) Three- Dimensional space of action. I agree with him as getting the emotion and story across within the scene are the most important thing to do while editing and this is something I am aiming to do within my own work now and in the future.