Description: Key Features: Offers a deeper discussion of MTV style editing Includes more on the appropriation of style Examines innovations in documentary Description: The Technique of Film & Video Editing is the best training for aspiring directors, providing a detailed, precise look at the artistic and aesthetic principles and practices of editing for both picture and sound. Analyses of photographs from dozens of classic and contemporary films and videos provide a sound basis for the professional filmmaker and student editor. Practical skills are grounded by an exposition of the ideas and styles of editing through which the director can understand the visual tools at his or her disposal. This book puts into context the storytelling choices an editor will have to make against a background of theory, history, and practice. Table of Contents: Part 1: History of Film Editing; The Silent Period; The Early Sound Film; The Influence of the Documentary; The Influence of Popular Arts; Editors Who Became Directors; Experiments in Editing: Alfred Hitchcock; New Technologies; International Advances; The Influence of Television and Theatre; New Challenges to Filmic Narrative Conventions; The MTV Influence on Editing I; The MTV Influence on Editing II; The Influence of Psychoanalytic Ideas On Editing; The Appropriation of Style I: Imitation and Innovation; THe Appropriation of Style II: Limitation and Inovation; Part 2: Editing for the Genre; Action; Dialogue; Comedy; Documentary; Imaginative Documentary; Innovation in Documentary; Ideas and Sound; Part 3: Principles of Editing; The Picture Edit and Continuity; The Picture Edit and Pace; The Sound Edit and Clarity; The Sound Edit and Creative Sound; NonlinearEditing and Digital Technology; Nonlinear and Digital Technology II; Conclusion; Appendix A: Cutting Room Procedures; Appendix B: Filmography; Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Index Audience: Students of film/cinema; professional filmmakers

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