Monday, September 18, 2017

Film editors need librarian skills

The film editor shares her organizational insight…
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Amanda: There are a couple of things that slow up film editing workflow. One is having total familiarity with the editing software. Example: you waste a lot of time going looking for the voice-over option on the menu. Or how to change the color on a text font.
Amanda Fix
Whitmore College
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Intern: So you need to have it down pat.
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Amanda: It’s got to be second nature.
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Intern: And the other thing?
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Amanda: A consistent filing system for all the footage and stills in the Library.
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Intern: A classificatory system like Dewey?
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Amanda: Known to the editor and his or her assistants. Date, time, place, subject. Unvarying.
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Voice-over
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Editing, for all the art in it, also benefits from the skills librarians have. Such as knowing where to go in the library and being able to immediately pull a book from the stacks. Maybe that’s why the place where footage and stills are kept is actually called “the Library”.
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