What talent does photography editing need?

What is needed is flexibility, seriousness and patience in literary literacy.

1. Sensitive reaction

A film made by a director takes about seven to ten hours, and then it is cut into one and a half hours.

Usually, after the whole shooting, the director and the editor will watch the movie together and discuss it. At this time, the editor has made a preliminary arrangement adjustment to the director's material, but this may not be exactly what the director meant, so the director should communicate with the editor first.

Ten hours of material may be divided into two or three days, during which the director will put forward his own views on each shot to the editor. If the shot is not good, it may be retaken, which is what we often call NG.

Sometimes I took the same shot several times, but some of them were bad shots, and some of them were chosen, but they were not satisfactory but acceptable. I want to stay and see if I can shoot better.

This situation will be shot several times, the editing will be watched several times, and then the director will say how many times to shoot the lens.

In this more than ten hours of material, the director should keep it in mind while watching it.

So if your reaction is not fast enough and your memory is not good enough, you may not be qualified for the work of scissorhands.

Because you have to concentrate on editing, if you stop working rashly, the mood of the whole play will be broken, which may interrupt that feeling, so you have to keep doing it.

Before becoming a good editor, you must be patient and sit still for several hours.

3. Movie sense

Simply put, it is a natural talent, just like a painter needs a talent for painting and a singer needs a good voice.

The editor's sense of film is the sense of drama. In the future, whether it is a documentary or a drama, can you feel the performance of the actors?

Or when editing, the actor has finished speaking. Do you want to cut off the later clips? If so, how long will it stay? You have to make this judgment by feeling.

4. Literary literacy

Literary literacy or artistic literacy, video creation is a comprehensive creation, including art, music and writing.

Movies use images to tell stories. How you make the story clear and present it is a kind of literary accomplishment, which will affect your artistic expression.

The same is true of music, and what kind of music you want to play when. If you have no feeling for music, it's hard to hear it, so an editor must also have musical accomplishment.

In terms of art, how to choose the connection between shots and how to connect light and shadow more beautifully is to test the artistic accomplishment of scissors.

As long as you use very simple images and put them in the right place, all the stories will be very vivid.

5. The method of finding the shear point

Where should I cut and connect?

Finding the tangent point is undoubtedly one of the important tasks of editing. One thing to pay attention to here is the vertex of the picture.

The so-called vertex of the picture is that the picture is the turning point of action and expression.

For example, when the character's arm is fully extended, when the action of nodding his head is over, when the sphere rises and is about to fall, the moment when the smile is withdrawn.

The image is a series of still pictures, because the previous film will form afterimages in the human eye, so the pictures on the film look dynamic.

6. The purpose of editing

Free from physical constraints, free to control time and space.

In photography and production, it is sometimes necessary to divide the lens and make a plot later.

Omitting the passage of actual time in the story, omitting the movement of space in the story, combining the performance intention to form the plot, and determining the final appearance of the work.