http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theeditor http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theeditor.jpg Hollywood Film Editor Norman Hollyn talks about the art of Film Editing Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:10:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've just gotten back from a screening of a documentary I'm editing, and a conference for film professors, in China. And while that doesn't fully account for my absence from these virtual pages, I was able to meet with a number of people who sparked some thoughts in my head ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theeditor/2008/11/14/editors-as-the-future-of-mobile-media/ The last three weeks, and the coming two, are going to be quite insane.  I've been finishing up a second cut on a documentary that is screening in Beijing next week and I hop on a flight to China Friday evening with (I hope) all of the Quicktimes and SD ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theeditor/2008/10/31/my-absence-is-noted/ Adam Curry, on Cranky Geeks Episode 137 (an always entertaining and, often, informative web show about tech, hosted by John C. Dvorak) talks about the problems with iTunes and other web-based movie and music download services. The conversation takes off from the recent fight between Apple and the Copyright Royalty Board, which ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theeditor/2008/10/12/adam-curry-apple-and-the-future-of-editors/ I'm liable to be a bit bumpy for the next few weeks as I finish up my next book and get the documentary on global rivers into shape for a screening in Beijing the first week in November. Despite my prayers, time has not expanded to fill the work available ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theeditor/2008/10/04/why-i-like-editing-films-that-other-people-hate/ I've been spending the last several days jamming to finish the remaining few chapters of my book, which accounts for my late entry this week. I was writing something that sparked some thoughts that I'd like to share with you.  It's about changes in journalism and the way in which they ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theeditor/2008/09/26/journalism-and-story-structure/ Last week I compiled a list of the favorite films from the students from two of my classes this semester. The list was surprising, both in terms of its variety as well as how (contrary to popular belief) well  films and foreign films were represented. Every now and then, on ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theeditor/2008/09/19/favorite-films-and-editing-part-2/ Every semester, in my editing classes, I ask the students to fill out a questionnaire which, among things, has a place to fill our their favorite five or six films ever. There are teachers at USC who claim that many of our students don't know any films older than the ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theeditor/2008/09/12/favorite-films-and-editing-part-1/ Every year, around this time, I get a booklet from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), called "Rules".  For those of you who wonder just what that AMPAS thing is, let me tell you that it's the organization that hands out the Oscars every year, and I've ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theeditor/2008/09/05/looking-for-good-editing/ It's Labor Day in the United States this coming Monday and it seemed a natural time for me to talk about what film unions have done in the scope of my career. I remember, one day when I was working as an assistant editor on a documentary that was struggling to ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theeditor/2008/08/29/labor-day-and-unions/ I've just gotten back from the 2008 UFVA conference in Colorado Springs, where over 300 film professors around the country got together to show films, deliver papers, sit on panels, and talk talk talk. That accounts for the one day delay in posting this -- something about being in the ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theeditor/2008/08/22/go-west-young-man-getting-work-in-editing/