Don't confuse what the camera department does with what editorial does.
In real life I have to drive across town to get to the bar. Lame.
Boring. Even with all the looking around at people honking at me and
their reactions to my off-color remarks. That would be dailies.
Dullsville.
Once my lame life is edited in movie land it's, "I'm out of here" door
closes. Door opens, "Pour me a beer my good barkeep". CU beer being
set on bar. Cut to me downing the last few refreshing drops. Now
that's editing. And in movie land most people wouldn't even notice
all the crap that got left out, but they would notice it if you left
it in, and that's why we do it.
I guess I was trying to address David's assertions that if something
is not noticed it shouldn't be done, and that somehow surround sound
is natural, while 3D is not. I'm saying that the type of editing that
is done in most movie and television programs is not natural and
mostly goes unnoticed. So why do it? Because real life in real time
is lame.
I'M OUT OF HERE!
Laptop closes.
Jay
On Jan 27, 2011, at 3:47 PM, blafarm wrote:
> Jay Mahavier <jay_mahavier@...> wrote:
> And we don't organically edit what we see in nature.
>
> I DO understand what you are saying -- but I think we're editing all
> day long.
>
> Your eyes (and ears for that matter) dart around all day long
> shifting attention from one subject to another. A car honks its
> horn -- you first look at the car -- and then focus in on the driver
> to learn his motivation. An associate makes an off-color remark in
> a group of people -- and your eye goes to a reaction shot of someone
> else involved in the conversation who might be sensitive to what has
> been said.
>
> Your brain/eye (and brain/ear) are editing all day long. And it
> largely continues in the 'movie' you run at night while you are
> sleeping.
>
> I'm not sure I have a point beyond that -- except to agree that good
> editing should be invisible -- except of course, when the decision
> is made to intentionally break those rules in order to illicit a
> specific response from the viewer.
>
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