The healthy edit creative editing techniques for perfecting your movie

This updated and revised new edition of The Healthy Edit provides aspiring and working editors with creative editing strategies they can employ to enhance a film, while also overcoming common production problems. With decades of experience editing and film doctoring Hollywood features, author John R...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Rosenberg, John, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, New York ; London, [England] : Routledge 2018.
Edición:Second edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009630140706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Prescriptions for Success
  • The Film Doctor
  • Strong Medicine
  • The Editor
  • Principles of Filmic Medicine
  • Cardiology
  • Genetics
  • Anatomy
  • Psychiatry
  • Surgery
  • Instruments
  • Bedside Manner
  • 2 Mastering the Art of Film Editing
  • Heart of the Matter
  • The Scalpel
  • Why Edit?
  • The Great Experiment of Dr. Kuleshov
  • Dynamic and Continuity Editing
  • The Rules
  • Match Action
  • Cut on Action
  • Let the Camera Settle Before Cutting
  • Create Visual Bridges
  • Don't Cross the Line
  • Maintain Eyelines
  • Vary the Cuts
  • Cuts Should Be Motivated
  • Allow Clean Entrances and Exits
  • Pay Attention to Physical Continuity
  • Respect the Rule of Three
  • 3 The Film Doctor Is In
  • The Profession
  • The Approach
  • What Is the Scene About?
  • Filling the Gaps
  • What Does the Audience Learn From This Scene?
  • Attention Deficit
  • Further Diagnosis
  • Wrestling With Material
  • When Poisons Are Medicines, Accidents Are Intentions
  • Gestation of the Cut
  • 4 The Instruments
  • Linear and Nonlinear Editing Systems
  • In Praise of the Physical Body
  • An Editor's Tools
  • Medieval Medicine: The Moviola
  • European Renaissance: The Flatbed
  • The Modern Revolution: Nonlinear
  • Early Electronic Systems
  • The Mouse That Roared
  • The Edit
  • The Frame Matters
  • One-Stop Shopping
  • You Must Remember This
  • 5 Internal Medicine
  • Coverage
  • The Master Shot
  • The Establishing Shot
  • The Wide Shot
  • The Medium Shot
  • The Close-Up
  • The Over-the-Shoulder Shot
  • The 2-Shot
  • The Reverse Angle
  • The Insert Shot
  • From Chaos to Order
  • Finding Order
  • Story Order
  • Reducing Bloat
  • The Gap
  • Examinations
  • The Puzzle
  • Saved in the Editing Room
  • Shot List
  • 6 Alternative Medicine
  • Nontraditional Treatments.
  • The Match Cut
  • Continuity Errors
  • The Goodies
  • Off-Camera and Off-Track
  • 7 A Brief History of the Practice
  • Sharp Objects
  • Tincture of Time
  • Tarantino and Time
  • Montage
  • The Jump Cut
  • "Look Out, Haskell, It's Real"
  • MTV
  • 8 Genre Editing Styles I
  • Expectations Posed by Genre
  • Conventions
  • Crossing Genres
  • The Ritual Object
  • Expectations
  • The Western Rides Into the Sunset
  • Science Fiction and Fantasy
  • Visual Effects
  • Computer-Generated Images
  • Compositing
  • Motion Capture
  • Visual Effects as Film Doctor
  • 9 Genre Editing Styles II
  • The Comedy
  • Surf the Laughter
  • Sight Gags
  • Romantic Comedy
  • Family Matters
  • Action Adventure
  • Guideposts
  • Crank
  • Emphasizing an Action
  • 10 Genre Editing Styles III
  • The Horror Film
  • Blood Suckers
  • The Thriller and Mystery
  • Family Films
  • The Documentary
  • Playing With Blocks
  • The Auteur Editor
  • Television and Genre
  • 11 Surgery
  • What Goes and What Stays
  • Practical Considerations
  • Trimming for Health
  • The Lift
  • The Way of the Lift
  • Lift and Separate . . . or Not
  • 12 Psychiatry of Character Disorders-Part I
  • Dialogue
  • Subtext
  • The Overlap
  • Exposition Infection
  • Show, Don't Tell
  • New Territory
  • 13 Psychiatry of Character Disorders-Part II
  • Performance
  • Tracking the Beats
  • Substitution
  • The Cutaway
  • Words Like Skin Tags
  • Improvisation
  • Bingeing
  • In Good Shape
  • 14 Genetics
  • Story Problems Inherent in the Screenplay
  • Inherited Traits
  • Evolution
  • Romeo &amp
  • Juliet
  • The Montage
  • A Telling Story
  • Information
  • 15 Cardiac Unit
  • Pace and Rhythm: The Editor's Unique Tools
  • Visual Music
  • Pick Up the Pace
  • The Power of Pace
  • Anticipation
  • Overstated
  • The Heart of the Matter
  • Rhythm Is Life
  • The Graduate
  • Finding the Flow
  • The Battleship Eisenstein
  • The Intercut.
  • Scene-to-Scene Transitions
  • 16 Rites of Passage
  • Transitions
  • Blacking Out
  • Shot Size
  • Contrast
  • Titles
  • The Flashback
  • Sound
  • The Pre-Lap
  • "Back to One"
  • Narration
  • 17 Imaging
  • K vs. mm
  • From Taxidermy to Taxonomy
  • Less Painful Extractions
  • 18 Audiology
  • Ambience
  • Microsurgery
  • Music Editing
  • 19 Bedside Manner
  • Politics of the Editing Room
  • Bedside Manner
  • No Surprises
  • Screening the Rough Cut
  • The Best Policy
  • All Ears
  • Staying Seated
  • Dailies and Rough Cuts
  • The Answer Is Yes
  • The Poor Craftsman
  • What's the Big Deal?
  • The Strength of Weak Ties
  • Committing to a Project
  • Film Doctoring
  • 20 Triage
  • Emergency Procedures
  • Two Weeks
  • Symptoms
  • Audio Issues
  • Video Ills
  • 21 Post-Mortem
  • From Final Cut to Exhibition
  • Made in Heaven
  • Affairs of the Heart
  • Reediting
  • The Free-for-All
  • The End Is Near
  • After the Hard Labor: Delivery
  • The End Backward
  • Glossary
  • Index.