# data[].attributes.body
Walter Murch - Oscar winning film editor

He wrote a book Called Blink of the eye

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
The Film & Sound Editor behind Apocalypse Now & The English Patient reveals the relationship between editing and dance, the importance of rhythm - "like telling a good joke" - and how digital film has transformed his work. Many thanks to Sheffield Doc/Fest for giving us access to interview Walter Murch.

# data[].attributes.body
To control time, space and rhythm of a film or video.

We can do many things to add tension, reveal or hide info and its all to do with editing techniques.

# data[].attributes.body
You need to know how to use it properly and that might not be easy as there is lots to learn

# data[].attributes.body
With non-linear editing it has made it much easier to edit stuff and access editing equipment.

It has led to user generated stuff like YouTube.

It is considered a specialist skill

# data[].attributes.body
We use Non Linear cutting as this is just on computer as Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut are both NLE Systems.

The footage is digital you can cut, splice, overwrite and etc as many times as you want and it will not lose any quality.

# data[].attributes.body
It is cutting tape and placing it in a sequence known as linear. You had to cut the film in the order you wanted it to be shown.

As you cut the film and placed it together, it lost quality. So it was a true skill as it was hard to do as if you messed up you will have to record it again

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Shows how to splice 2 inch 'quad' video tape using a microscope and two machine 'electronic' video editing from the 1960's - www.vtoldboys.com

# data[].attributes.body
1950s

# data[].attributes.body
so it does not confuse viewer as if you do not follow this it looks like they have switched places when they have not

# data[].attributes.body
Early 1900s

# data[].attributes.body
Melies, 1902

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
A Trip to the Moon (HQ 720p Full) - Viaje a la Luna - Le Voyage dans la lune - Georges Méliès 1902

# data[].attributes.body
Lumiere Bros, 1895

# data[].attributes.body
DW Griffiths invented different camera angles to show emotions, he invented some techniques that are still used today.

# data[].attributes.body
Thomas Edison - The great Train Robbery
Georges Melies - A Trip to the Moon

These two men discovered editing by cutting and gluing pieces of film together.

Melies discovered it by accident when his camera jammed whilst he was filming a man walking down the street and when he went over the footage it looked like the man had vanished.

Edison furthered tjhis by linking shots together. He started by putting together footage that had already been collected but then moved on to film his own stuff.

# data[].attributes.body
There was no editing at this stage

Moving image was so amazing as audiences never   experienced anything like it before so it was truly mind boggling for them.

the story couldn't be edited so it was all played in one shot.

It was believed at this time that film did not have a future because people could not see how it could go any further as editing was not invented so it was all very boring.