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34: Walter Murch, ACE Part Two

Art of the Frame

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Film Editing and Editing in a Documentary

The documentary was shot over a six or seven year period as the large Hadron Collider was being built. The decisions that you make editorially with the director are I would say almost identical to what you were dealing with in a fiction film. You have many different interpretations some of them with small differences others with large differences in performance. For a scene the editor might have 50 different line readings of a line of dialogue from seven or eight different camera positions and how do you thread that needle?

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