"Cut Out the Bad Bits"

Editing is...

• Structure

• Color

• Dynamics

• Manipulation of time

One way of looking at the process of making a film is to think of it as...

The search to identify what—for the particular film you are working on—is a uniquely “bad bit”

The editor embarks on the search to...

Identify these “bad bits” and cut them out, provided that doing so does not disrupt the structure of the “good bits” that are left

What is bad in one film may be...

Good in another