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The Book Every Editor Has to Read — Walter Murch and In the Blink of an Eye

A walk through Walter Murch's In the Blink of an Eye — why a cut works at all, the rule of six that ranks emotion above continuity, and what Murch takes an editor's job to be. Murch cut Apocalypse Now and The Conversation, so the sound argument is not incidental to the editing one.

StudioBinder · 15 min · Intermediate · EDT · Editing · 2024

What you take away

Emotion is worth more than continuity, and Murch weights it at fifty-one per cent — more than the other five criteria combined.

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