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35: Walter Murch, ACE Part Three

Art of the Frame

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Is the Audience Moving?

When you go see those screenings with an audience, is that one of those things that you're just inherently looking at is people are not moving or they're starting to shuffle? Yeah, I think you're feeling that, yeah. And it's a good thing really, because now in a sense, you're looking at the film from a different perspective. What a preview does is emotionally move you, let's say 98 degrees or 85 degrees to the right. As obvious as it was, that was just something you didn't realize when you were just alone with the film. So you try as an editor to anticipate what the public is going to think. When they see the film, you try

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