The invisible cut : how editors make movie magic /
O'Steen, Bobbie, 1952-
The invisible cut : how editors make movie magic / Bobbie O'Steen. - Studio City, CA : Michael Wiese Productions, c2009. - x, 351 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-349).
Introduction : The seductive magician -- Setting the stage --
Pulling off the act -- Mastering the magic -- Making the invisible cut -- Cheating time -- Cheating moves -- Knowing the eye --
Knowing the camera -- The sound and music -- The act comes together -- The marriage of the editor and director -- A history of making rules and breaking them -- Analyzing scenes and their frame grabs -- Making magic -- Contact sheets of frame grabs -- Glossary -- About the author.
This definitive book about film editing pulls back the curtain and shows us how the mysterious art of editing is actually done. Using examples from the best editors in the world, author O'Steen explains to us what the editor really does to make us believe in movie magic. By analyzing the "out" and "in" frames of the actual cuts from classic masterpieces -- The Graduate, Chinatown, Rear Window, The French Connection, Twelve Angry Men, The Big Chill, Body Heat, A Hard Day's Night, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -- O'Steen reveals how an editor manipulates us by using sleight of hand and seduces us by anticipating our needs and desires. Only then can the editor create those invisible cuts that grab us by the seat of our pants and keep us there. - Publisher.
9781932907537 193290753X
Motion pictures--Editing.
Cine--Edición.
TR 899 / O999i 2009
778.535
The invisible cut : how editors make movie magic / Bobbie O'Steen. - Studio City, CA : Michael Wiese Productions, c2009. - x, 351 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-349).
Introduction : The seductive magician -- Setting the stage --
Pulling off the act -- Mastering the magic -- Making the invisible cut -- Cheating time -- Cheating moves -- Knowing the eye --
Knowing the camera -- The sound and music -- The act comes together -- The marriage of the editor and director -- A history of making rules and breaking them -- Analyzing scenes and their frame grabs -- Making magic -- Contact sheets of frame grabs -- Glossary -- About the author.
This definitive book about film editing pulls back the curtain and shows us how the mysterious art of editing is actually done. Using examples from the best editors in the world, author O'Steen explains to us what the editor really does to make us believe in movie magic. By analyzing the "out" and "in" frames of the actual cuts from classic masterpieces -- The Graduate, Chinatown, Rear Window, The French Connection, Twelve Angry Men, The Big Chill, Body Heat, A Hard Day's Night, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -- O'Steen reveals how an editor manipulates us by using sleight of hand and seduces us by anticipating our needs and desires. Only then can the editor create those invisible cuts that grab us by the seat of our pants and keep us there. - Publisher.
9781932907537 193290753X
Motion pictures--Editing.
Cine--Edición.
TR 899 / O999i 2009
778.535