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S3E10. The Fundamental Laws of Shot Selection
There are a huge array of psychological, behavioural, action and dialogue based considerations we need to go through in order to get the best elements onto the timeline.In this week's episode of Once Upon a timeline...
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S3E9. What Should an Editor Look at First in a Shot?
There is a psychological and subconscious grading system with which the mind views new images and what it thinks is most important within a new shot. Much of it is the result of our evolution over thousands of years...
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S3E8. How Can We Create Value in the Mind of Our Clients?
It's not good enough to just focus on the craft, there are numerous psychological traits we must be aware of as well. On this week's show I'm going to be talking about a major one; the art of creating value in the...
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S3E7. The Editor's Guide to Visual Grammar
How are many scenes structured? What are the can and can't do's in visual logic? When and how can we break the rules? These are just some of the editing questions we'll be discussing on this week's show.We also have...
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S3E6. The Perils of Full Disclosure
We're kicking off our first podcast episode of the new year with a discussion around Full Disclosure and all its perils. Crafting the information and story content is one thing but knowing when and where to disclose...
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S3E5. In Conversation With Carly Brown Part 2
Within just a few short years Carly's grit, determination and relentless pursuit of her dream to edit high-end drama has paid off as you can now see her work on the latest season of the BBC/HBO drama Industry.We love...
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S3E4. In Conversation With Carly Brown Part 1
And today's guest on Once Upon a Timeline has one of those great stories. The hugely talented Carly Brown has worked on a unique range of genres as she rose up the editing ladder. From short promos to quick...
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S3E3. In Defence of Jump Cuts
But without an in depth look at why they happen and all of the many ways we can actually benefit from them, we'll never look at them as anything but an inconvenience.This week's show is an encyclopaedic study of this...
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S3E2. The Chameleon Effect: Working With Directors
In this week's episode of Once Upon a Timeline I discuss the power balance in the edit suite and all of the psychological aspects at play. What do directors want? How do they think? What do they need from us outside...
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S3E1. Story Arcs: What Every Creative Editor Needs to Know
As visual storytellers we need to concern ourselves with many different types of arcs that are never really talked about in the editing world. And so to kick off Season 3 of Once Upon a Timeline we’re going to...
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S2E17. Gear Acquisition Syndrome: The Curse of The Modern Filmmaker
The emphasis on kit and keeping up with all of the latest equipment really does negate the one true aspect of filmmaking which we should all be focusing on more than anything else. It's also the thing our audiences...
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S2E16. The 3 Most Important Words in Editing
They save us, they help us and they make sense in a world full of chaos. Like a thousand editors before me, I've spent large parts of my career using these words to construct the essential journalistic structure and...
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