The cutting room floor

Here's the latest promo for the Media Production students' denim social. Editing was essential to the making of this video. Of over an hour of footage, with tons of jokes about nuns, double rainbows, nerds, etc., Jeremy Williams and Caitlin MacGregor distilled it all down to a hilarious minute of promotional video.

It got me thinking about how much editing goes into make videos and film. Having made a few short videos for class, I know the precision and time that needs to be put into editing a video. For a feature length film, the editing process goes on for months upon months. Even years, in the case of a movie like Apocalypse Now.

There's a great film about Hollywood movie editing and the history of this art called The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing. It features interviews with directors like Steven Speilberg, Quentin Tarantino, and Martin Scorsese and some of the most successful Hollywood editors. It's definitely worth renting at the video store.