The Cutting Edge

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Editing: This documentary was very insight full and contained so much knowledge on the role of editors, and specifically where and when editing began.  It begins with how editing first came, about.  Early editing was very basic and was not seen as a creative process like we see it today.  This documentary explains how it is in the editing room where the movie actually becomes a “movie”. 

This documentary uses many famous movie as examples which I loved because it gives you some “behind the scene knowledge”. They interviewed one of my favorite directors Quinton Tarantino.  Who explains how important a good editor is.  Tarantino wanted a woman to be his editor for his first film because he believed she would be much more nurturing to his film and try to make his film as close to what he wants as much as possible. They also interview editors and directors who talk about how just simple editing like adding two frames, or subtracting two frames can drastically change the way the scene looks and feels.  An example of this is in Jaws, how by just having two extra frames made the shark look completely fake but without those two shots they were able to create a realistic, terrifying monster.  This documentary was very interesting to me as I would love to pursue editing as a future career.