"And we don't organically edit what we see in nature."
You've no doubt read "In the Blink of an Eye?" This is, of course, the slender and absorbing volume by Walter Murch himself, which attempts to answer the question "Why do cuts work?" His answer is that we edit reality constantly when we blink. It is this function of our vision, the fact that we are looking at a given scene, and moments later, seeing a change in that scene that's occurred in the fractions of a second that it takes to blink, that makes us neurologically primed to accept edited films.
Reading this book made me realize to what extent my perception of my daily reality is divided up into shots, wide, tight, medium, ECU, etc., and to what degree my visual memory is made up of "camera angles." For example, when I remember the day my car's radiator failed while I was crossing the San Francisco Bay Bridge, my memory is divided into distinct visual frames, the view out the windshield as the first wisps of smoke drift ominously across my field of vision, and the tight cutaway of the dashboard vent as the smoke starts to pour out of it. I've asked myself if I divide up reality this way because I edit for a living, but then I bring up memories from my youth and realize that they are constructed the same way, as are my dreams.
Life itself is a movie, and it runs in 3D. But in my head, I think it's playing in 2D.
Shirley
-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Mahavier <jay_mahavier@earthlink.net>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, Jan 27, 2011 11:53 am
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] 3D? hee hee hee
There are some out, myself included, that think editing done well
should go unnoticed. Yet a great majority of films and television are
edited. And we don't organically edit what we see in nature. Just
like we don't crossfade into flashbacks or many other techniques of
story telling. And just because 3D is mostly lame right now does not
mean that it will never improve.
Jay
On Jan 27, 2011, at 12:52 PM, David Dodson wrote:
> if it's not noticed then why do it?
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