Collected Data

"When a good commercial film manages to make its cuts invisible, it distills 100 years of lore into its editing practice."

27/07/15 11:11 Filed in: Editing
Jeffrey M Zacks;

What is going on here? Consider that our visual systems evolved over hundreds of millions of years, while film editing has been around only for a little more than 100 years. Despite this, new audiences appear to be able to assimilate splices on more or less the first try. I think the explanation is that, although we don’t think of our visual experience as being chopped up like a Paul Greengrass fight sequence, actually it is.


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