Film Editing: Great Cuts Every Filmmaker and Movie Lover Must Know

by: Gael Chandler

Composing shots with your camera is one thing. Making your video rock through editing is another. This one-of-a-kind book is your “must have” cheat sheet for making the cuts that editors use to create memorable movies. Fantastic for filmmakers, students, moviegoers, or anyone who wants to discover how cuts affect the viewer and the movie’s story. YouTube filmmakers: This book will juice up your creations!

Film Editing: Great Cuts Every Filmmaker and Movie Lover Must Know makes the invisible art of editing visible by using 600 colorful frames from popular, recent films. The frames, accompanied by brisk descriptions, are perfect for readers who like to “gaze” as well as those who prefer to “graze.” Written by an editor and the author of Cut by Cut: Editing Your Film or Video, this picture dictionary of cuts shows you how filmed frames are edited together to craft movies that zing audiences with their pacing,character connections, and enduring stories.

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Meet the Author

Gael Chandler

Gael Chandler, based in Los Angeles, was nominated twice for a Cable Emmy for comedy editing and has trained hundreds of professionals on digital editing systems and students on editing systems, practices and theory.She has edited comedies, dramas, documentaries, features, corporate videos, and promos, and cut on every type of medium: film, tape, and digital. Nominated twice for a Cable ACE award for editing a comedy series Additionally she has taught editing practices and history at Loyola Marymount University and California State Universities at Long Beach, Los Angeles, and Northridge, and has trained hundreds of professionals, independent filmmakers, professors, and students to operate digital editing equipment.

Books of Gael Chandler

Editing for Directors: A Guide for Creative Collaboration 3 August 2021

Cut by Cut: Editing your Film or Video (2nd Edition) June 1, 2012

Film Editing: Great Cuts Every Filmmaker and Movie Lover Must Know 1 Oct 2009

Overview

Details

ISBN: 9781932907629
SKU: 8710582/Done
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Publish Date: 1 Oct 2009
Page Count: 220

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Howard Suber, founding chair, UCLA Film & Television Producers Program; author, The Power of Film – May 10, 2016:

This is an eye-grabbing, succulent book that helps you understand visually, rather than in words, how those incredibly short pieces of film shot on the set or location come together to create a movie — a kinetic visceral sensation that can leave you breathless, moved, or profoundly transported. D.W. Griffith, the father of American filmmaking, famously wrote, ‘Above all, I am trying to make you see.’ Gael Chandler does exactly that.
Nancy Morrison, A.C.E., editor, Desperate Housewives, Starter Wife, Malcolm in the Middle – May 10, 2016:

A comprehensive and easy-to-read description of the techniques editors use to seamlessly tell stories. The use of film frames clearly illustrates the editing concepts. A ‘must read’ for any film student or anyone just interested in the art of editing.
Tim Squyres, A.C.E., editor, Lust, Caution; Syriana; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Sense and Sensibility – May 10, 2016:

With lucid descriptions and clear illustrations, Gael Chandler lays out the nuts and bolts of the editor’s craft. An excellent primer on the grammar of contemporary filmmaking.
Tina Hirsch, A.C.E., Emmy and Eddie award-winning editor, Gremlins, The West Wing – May 10, 2016:

I can wholeheartedly recommend Gael Chandler’s Film Editing for anyone who is curious about how movies are made. It shows clear, photographic examples of all kinds of edits from the most basic to the complex. As an educator, I look forward to recommending it to my students, be they aspiring editors, directors, writers, or producers.