About this title: In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought-provoking essay on film editing. Starting with what might be the most basic editing question - Why do cuts work? - Murch treats the reader to a wonderful ride through the aesthetics and practical concerns of cutting film. Along the way, he offers his unique insights on such subjects as continuity and discontinuity in editing, dreaming, and reality; criteria for a good cut; the blink of the eye as an emotional cue; digital editing; and much more. In this second edition, Murch reconsiders and completely ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Silman-James Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781879505629ISBN:1879505622
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"One thought: read the afterword on digital editing first, and then move to the more poetic, first seventy-ish pages (the original speech). I think the whole idea of the blink framing our personal narrative would of stuck a little more that way."
"First half was very broad editing theory, nothing too specific. the second half was outdated information on the digital age. Just find Murch's lectures online instead, they are more informative."
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