Oscar®-winning editor Stephen Mirrione, ACE says he “didn’t know anything” about Formula One before working on the film. But that didn’t matter once he read Joseph Kosinski’s script. The commitment to authenticity, deep research, and sheer ambition made the decision easy.
Oscar-winning editor Joe Walker, ACE invites you into his personal cutting room to demonstrate how he used storyboards, sound effects and basic vfx techniques to develop and plan out the proper timing for scenes in Dune: Part Two. Joe will show how the 'Paul Rides the Sandworm' sequence was plotted out even before he had a frame of footage.
Severance editor Geoffrey Richman reveals the editing techniques and timeline used to build the emotional intensity of the season 2 finale. He reviews the process behind key scenes that build up to the edit's two key anchor points -- ultimately leading to an intense final moment in the season.
MAESTRO editor Michelle Tesoro is no stranger to cutting movies directed by actors. In fact, it was while she was working with actor Sean Penn on his film FLAG DAY, that Penn turned to Michelle and told her that he just texted friend Bradley Cooper that she was a 'goddess in the cutting room'. Clearly that pitch worked as Cooper entrusted Michelle with the editorial duties for his much-anticipated biopic.
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing is a 2004 documentary film about the history and art of film editing, directed by filmmaker Wendy Apple. The film brings up many topics, including the collaborative nature of filmmaking, female representation in the editing field, and emerging technologies of the 21st century.
From the appendices for the Lord of The Rings, we hear from Jackson, editor John Gilbert, first assistant editor Peter Skarratt, co-producer Jamie Selkirk, director of photography Lesnie, producer Osborne, executive producer Mark Ordesky, and assistant editor Annie Collins. They discuss the enormous of amount of footage shot for the film as well as how they pared down all that material.