Once Upon a Timeline Inside The Edit

It’s one of the age-old questions an editor asks themselves at some point in their career… should I go in-house at a production company, broadcaster, or studio. Or should I throw caution to the wind and jump into a freelance lifestyle?

What happens when we spend hours cutting a sequence, we think we’ve done a great job but then the client comes in and doesn’t like it at all? An every day occurrence in a pro edit suite.

On this week’s show I’ll be talking about a mindset that is hugely important in long form. Creative actions and the creative reactions that happen on our timeline as a result.

On this week’s show I’ll be talking about sequence archetypes/scene modelling. The benefits we gain as editors in analysing and categorising as many different scenes and sequences in other people’s work as possible, is incredibly useful. It widens our abilities and makes us better editors.

And we’re back. Did you miss us? We missed you! We’re kicking off Season Four of Once Upon a Timeline with an in depth discussion around the checks and balances of  sequence quality. There’s so many creative skills we need to apply to any one scene or sequence and it can be daunting trying to remember them all before we hand a cut over to our client for approval.

We can learn an enormous amount about editing from listening to editors. But we can also learn an enormous amount from listening to the creative people we work with every single day, the people who employ us... directors.