Interview - Chris Dickens, Editor – Slumdog Millionaire Part IV (Video) (link)
Some very interesting discussion in the middle of the clip where he describes beautifully how good editing can make something less obvious and more visual and ultimately more moving.
He also mentions Nicholas Roeg whose Walkabout is a very interestingly edited and shot film.
This is really making me think that writing for film is such a different job to writing novels or short stories. Whereas in the novels the quality of the words and sentences are what’s important, in film the best writers deal with visual sophistication.
(Click the link in the title)
Posted 2 years ago
