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Parasite's Perfect Montage

Nerdwriter1 breaks down Parasite's mid-film montage sequence, showing how the editing compresses a full home-infiltration plan into a few efficient minutes.

Nerdwriter1 · 8 min · Advanced · EDT · Editing · 2018

What you take away

Gets a close model for pacing a multi-beat plan sequence through cutting rhythm alone.

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The films in this lesson

Parasite (2019)

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Apple Mac mini M4 — The cheapest Mac that cuts 4K without complaint
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BenQ SW272U — 4K, hardware calibration, a grading-adjacent price
Angelbird AtomX SSDmini 1TB — The drive an Atomos recorder wants

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