Nonlinear Editing: Storytelling, Aesthetics, & Craft

Chock full of provocative ideas, insights, resources, tools, and exercises, this book will serve as your virtual mentor inspiring you to making better decisions in the edit bay and in your career. Hone your instincts. Know where to cut ?and when not to cut. Boost your confidence in your aesthetic decisions so you can effectively collaborate in the brotherhood of filmmaking. Pursue your craft and perpetuate your career by learning how to work with clients, manage the chaos, and get still more business.

Editor, director, producer, or screenwriter ?whatever your venue ?take stock of the theories, precedents, processes, and politics that have shaped your voice and discover how the keystrokes of an NLE can articulate it. Gather your tools, plan your process, and listen to your collaborators, the camera, light, and actors. Learn how you can employ myth in storytelling, overcome story problems, and present your narrative with elegant transitions, color and composition, compositing, and sound.

Principles, techniques, resources, and inspiration, to suit any platform ?any NLE! Interviews with Tom Rolf, Mary Sweeney, and Elizabeth Rufenacht (among others) offer the wisdom of seasoned pros. The companion CD-ROM offers a treasure trove of valuable software, image files, tools, utilities, fonts, filters, and sounds. Useful bibliographies, checklists, and documents include editing guidelines, application tipsheets, bin examples, story structure questions, and job flow and budgeting spreadsheets.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introductions

Chapter 1 Gathering the Editor's Tools

PART I: "YOU"

PART II: "THE STUFF"

Chapter 2 Planning the Process

Chapter 3 Giving Respect Where Respect Is Due

Chapter 4 Gathering Around the Campfire

Chapter 5 Overcoming Story Problems

Chapter 6 Tripping on Transitions

Chapter 7 Color and Composition

Chapter 8 Compositing and the Editor

Chapter 9 Dynamic Sound

Chapter 10 How Do I Break In?

Chapter 11 Clients and Chaos

Chapter 12 Conclusions and Continuity

Chapter 13 Useful Lists

Chapter 14 What's on the CD?

Index

這本書充滿了引人入勝的想法、洞察力、資源、工具和練習，將成為您的虛擬導師，激勵您在剪輯室和職業生涯中做出更好的決策。磨練您的直覺，知道在哪裡剪輯，以及何時不剪輯。增強您對美學決策的信心，以便能夠在電影製作的兄弟會中有效合作。通過學習如何與客戶合作、管理混亂並獲得更多業務，追求您的技藝並延續您的職業生涯。

無論您是編輯師、導演、製片人還是編劇，無論您的場地是什麼，都要總結一下塑造您聲音的理論、先例、過程和政治，並發現非線性編輯器的按鍵如何表達它。收集您的工具，計劃您的過程，並聆聽您的合作者、攝影機、燈光和演員。了解如何在故事中運用神話，克服故事問題，並以優雅的過渡、色彩和構圖、合成和聲音呈現您的敘事。

原則、技巧、資源和靈感，適用於任何平台 - 任何非線性編輯器！與Tom Rolf、Mary Sweeney和Elizabeth Rufenacht（等等）的訪談提供了經驗豐富的專業人士的智慧。附帶的CD-ROM提供了寶貴的軟件、圖像文件、工具、實用程序、字體、濾鏡和聲音。有用的書目、檢查表和文件包括編輯指南、應用程序提示表、資料夾示例、故事結構問題和工作流程和預算表格。

目錄：
致謝
引言
第1章 收集編輯師的工具
第一部分：「你」
第二部分：「材料」
第2章 計劃過程
第3章 給予應有的尊重
第4章 圍繞篝火
第5章 克服故事問題
第6章 過渡的旅程
第7章 色彩和構圖
第8章 合成和編輯師
第9章 動態聲音
第10章 如何入行？
第11章 客戶和混亂
第12章 結論和連續性
第13章 有用的清單
第14章 CD上有什麼？
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