In Reply to: "The lost art of film editing": "The entire movie is assembled in this jittery style." posted by clarkjohnsen on August 14, 2006 at 09:05:59:
...to get to cable television and dvd's, we reap what we sow. Most of the intended audience-obviously, present company excluded-can't watch anything longer that ten minutes in length without twitching or drooling. The end result in satisfying the wishes of the majority of the movie going public is cinema that imitates television. For me the worst part isn't the editing, which I think is amazingly intricate for the most part, it's the filmmaker's planned crappy cinematography. I hate hand held cinema verite-like camera operating. It's like the whole film world is an old episode of NYPD Blue. I think editors are the saviors of saveable films.
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- When the ultimate goal of a movie is to successful enough... - eppis1 23:35:07 08/14/06 (2)
- "Crappy cinematography" can also IMO include too much Hallmarky visual malarky. - clarkjohnsen 09:33:35 08/15/06 (1)
- Yup although it depends on... - Harmonia 16:36:46 08/15/06 (0)