Editing II: Rhythm & Emotion
Pacing, music, J-cuts and L-cuts, montage. Editing as the final rewrite.
- Lectures
- 8
- Total runtime
- 3h 10m
- Attendance minimum
- 1h 35m
- Prerequisites
- PRO-102 Editing I: The Cut
Lecture Playlist
Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.
- #14 Editing in Cinema | Montage | Jumpcut | Part 2 (Introduction to Film Studies) Where meaning comes from: the montage sequence as a built object that carries time and change 22 min Attended
- Lecture 3. Rhythm: Fundamentals (MUSI 112) What rhythm actually is: pulse, meter, tempo, syncopation — the vocabulary an editor is working in 49 min Attended
- The Repeat Cut — A Simple But Effective Way to Get Your Audience’s Attention Bending time inside a scene: the repeat cut, and the emotional work a repeated moment does 11 min Attended
- The Book Every Editor Has to Read — Walter Murch and In the Blink of an Eye The priority order: why emotion outranks continuity when the two conflict 15 min Attended
- How to Pace Your Film — Examples of Good and Bad Pacing in Editing, Writing and More Pacing as a relative quantity: building a tension curve out of shot length and information density 17 min Attended
- What is a Leitmotif — 4 Ways to Tell a Story With Film Music Music as a narrative instrument, not a mood wash 11 min Attended
- Day 10: Project Time; Part 2: Rough Cuts (20.219) Editing as the final rewrite: what happens when the script meets the footage in a rough cut 51 min Attended
- Practicum · working creator Whiplash's Brilliant Editing - A Breakdown Lecture 2's rhythm vocabulary and Lecture 4's emotion-over-continuity priority put into practice: a working feature-film editor takes apart the Oscar-winning cut of *Whiplash* and shows where each choice was made and why 14 min Attended
Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, This Guy Edits — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.