Dan Lebantal is the person who edited cowboys vs. aliens and some other stuff (don't ask me what I don't know) and he felt incline to give us a few pointers on how to make about editing. (I'm still not clear on what kind of editing but I think he ment in general) so with out further to do here's what I got out of it.
First off make sure to release the movie the right time it can be the difference between an ET or a Tron 2. Second is find the right tone for the story, the best example of this is Elf (or buddy the elf as my family calls it). In this movie Dan had to edit out a lot of the movie to get it to that wide-eyed wonder innocence look. This of coarse led to it being a Christmas classic and over all a great movie. (similar things happened with toy story but that isn't important right now). Lastly you have to "play nice" with the director, listen to his advise, and most importantly play the office politicks game.(it can range from smiling at people you hate, to helping them work out conflicting ideas, just don't be anti-social). All and all his advise makes sense and having a great work ethic never hurt anyone.
To be honest I found this article a little hard to under stand but that might be because I'm running on 5 hours sleep and to muck caffeine. I would like to have a little more context as to who this guy is but beggars can't be choosers. Over all the article was interesting to say the least but like I have ssaid countless times be for I plan to be an animator not a video editor.
final question "can next weeks blogs be about animation?"
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