From the course: Foundations of Video: The Art of Editing
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I hope that this has been an interesting and a fun walk through the values of knowing your story both before and during the editing process. The more you really know the story of your project that you're about to edit the more you can bring the real meaning of each individual scene into the audiences mind and heart. I've seen too many editors go right to the editing before they've looked at the script, or looked at their dailies. Ultimately, that doesn't save you any time at all. It forces you to make uninformed choices and that's going to slow you down, even if you shot the footage yourself. Understanding everything about your script, and how its characters emotionally move through the story. That will ultimately make you a more valuable editor. And someone who directors and producers really want to work with. Of course, the story approach to editing applies to every other phase of the filmmaking process. From producing to writing to directing and production design to sound, music…
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