A Heap of Editing Advice

Robert Hogan passes along some great editing advice as he works on his film Los Tres Cabrones:

Make the hard sacrifices to keep it short. Just because a scene is pretty doesn’t mean you should spend five minutes on a scene that could achieve the same impact in two minutes.

If your shot contains action that exits the frame, do not linger on it, even for a couple frames. Don’t give the audience a chance to think about when the cut is going to occur.

There’s more at Adventures in Storytelling: On Editing.

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Author, photographer, and late-nighter Jeff Carlson writes for outlets such as Popular Photography, DPReview, Creative Pro, and others, and is a contributing editor for TidBITS. He is the author of Take Control of Your Digital Photos; The Photographer's Guide to Luminar AI, Take Control of Apple Watch, and Take Control of Your Digital Storage, among many other titles. View all posts by Jeff Carlson