stands between a great film and an amateur collage of shots.
The importance of editing dates back ages, chronicled in the book “The Technique Of Film And Video Editing” by Ken Dancyger. It upholds some of the finest examples of editing imparting the narrative of the film through silent shots, music and jump shots involving ordinary objects. Alfred Hitchcock’s filmmaking (in films like ‘Vertigo’ and ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’) is considered to have some of the finest editing work by the erstwhile standards, and can easily exemplify why editing is considered so integral to the success of a film or TV production.
In the earlier ages, editing was physically done, with the help of mechanical equipment that sliced, spliced and appropriately put together ‘linearly’ edited reels. The digital revolution and technological advances like the