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Editors & Assistants – A Status Report Guild Mentoring Seminar
The job of the assistant editor has changed substantially over the last decade. […]
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Assistant Roundtable: Camera & Editing Build Bridge Between Production & Post
Assistant Editors and Camera Assistants discuss issues such as career advancement, technological developments and the future of the industry as they see it. […]
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Video Spawned the Editing Star: What Hath MTV Wrought?
Has MTV reinvented or hobbled the art and craft of editing? […]
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Cut and Run: Where MTV Editing Got Its Chops
A zippier editing style has achieved institutional status, through MTV […]
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Serial Thrillers: TV’s New ‘Kidnapped’ and ‘Dexter’ Present Challenges for Editors
Serialized dramas with one story arc per season aren’t a new thing in television. Two of them look particularly promising. […]
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THIS MONTH IN FILM HISTORY: Are You ‘Experience’d?
The American Experience had a unique style and zeitgeist. The stories were never pat interpretations of historical figures and events, nor did they shy away from the chronicles of lost causes, defeats, rough compromises and violence. […]
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‘Monk’s’ Hollywood Soundtrack: Lon Bender and Doug Hemphill
Sound editor Lon Bender, MPSE, knew that he needed to leverage his many years of experience to develop a time-conscious workflow for director Kaige Chen’s IMAX 3DChinese martial arts offering ‘Monk Comes Down the Mountain’ […]
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Rebooting ‘Roots’
The idea to reboot the legendary, award-winning miniseries Roots nearly 40 years later was executive producer Mark Wolper’s, and it did not come easily. […]
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The Del Spiva Experience:
Music editor Del Spiva chuckles when asked how he explains the job of a music editor to the uninitiated. For Spiva, explaining the job can be a Socratic experience; he throws challenges at his questioners until they comprehend the nature of his work. […]
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising: The Editors of ‘Mad Men’ Reveal the Truth Behind the Lies
Created by former Sopranos writer Matthew Weiner, AMC’s acclaimed Mad Men unveils the curiously alluring world of Don Draper, a top New York advertising man in the 1960s who has built his life around a series of lies. […]
