any good books about the art of editing?

[tomhale]

Hi, anybody have any suggestions regarding good books about editing? I've read "In The Blink of an Eye" by Walter Murch but that's about it.

[Paul Savarese]

This is a great one that I own:The Technique of Film and video editing by Ken Dancyger...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0240804201?ie=UTF8&tag=ebookbellycom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0240804201

[jpp]

There's a classic short text by the director/editor Edward Dmytryk called "On Film Editing", which reviews basic techniques like overlaps and cutting on action. Another classic would be "Technique of Film Editing", by another director/editor, Karl Reisz. Don't know if it's currently in print, however.

[Bart Durkin]

Tom,
Check out In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch.

Had the pleasure of attending a lecture by him in Bucharest while he was working on "Youth Without Youth". He's done extensive work with Francis Ford Coppola, and has fascinating editorial theory.

[Lucas Wilson]

Hi, anybody have any suggestions regarding good books about editing? I've read "In The Blink of an Eye" by Walter Murch but that's about it.

It's another Murch book, but "The Conversations" is one of my favorites...

http://www.amazon.com/Conversations-Walter-Murch-Editing-Film/dp/0375709827

Lucas

[Tarek S. Kandil]

google 'little frog hd' its helpful

i'm just gettin started so far my biggest two readin material refs are lfhd and stu maschwitz prolost

t

[Friedrich Moser]

Think this is a very important thread.

I am not an editor, but did it quite a long time. My approach troughout my professional life has been (be it journalistic work, news presenting, shooting) to get copies of works that intrigued me - and to go through it frame by frame, a hundred times, together with a friend - and then try it out ourselves. The learning-by-doing method worked pretty well.

There is only one book I would really recommend every-one who is in film-making and that is Robert McKee's "Story". But if there are other good books around, I appreciate every hint to them. "In the blink of an eye" IMO is more about the ideas of editing rather than techniques. One interesting book in German only though is Christian Mikunda's "Kino spüren" (Feeling cinema) - it's about the psychological backgrounds of perception. Well structured, but would deserve a general update.

Best, Fritz

www.blueandgreen.info

[Sidney L. Plaut]

if you need to go deep. its Pudovkin or Eisenstein´s "film Form". understanding mis en scene will help your editing alot.

[PatrickW]

ZEROVILLE
By Steve Erickson

Its a work of fiction about an unusual editor living in cali... but its a great read, and has alot of history.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/books/review/Schillinger-t.html

[tomhale]

Thanks! I'll look into these. Tom