The Healthy Edit

Creative Editing Techniques for Perfecting Your Movie

John Rosenberg (University of Southern California, USA)

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Routledge
04 December 2017

Film movie production: technical skills

This updated and revised new edition of The Healthy Edit provides aspiring and working editors with creative editing strategies they can employ to enhance a film, while also overcoming common production problems. With decades of experience editing and film doctoring Hollywood features, author John Rosenberg reveals both the aesthetic and technical aspects of the editor’s art, demonstrating tricks and techniques for nursing an ailing project back to health or enhancing a well one. Whether it's a bad performance from an actor, a hole in the story or script, a continuity or pacing issue, or a poorly-composed shot, every film or show we watch encounters challenges during production—and fixing these issues becomes the job of the editor.

Utilizing an approach comparing film editing to medicine, working editor and professor John Rosenberg offers a software-agnostic guide to best editing practices, offering solutions to everything from story and script inconsistencies to genre-specific structural issues. Accessibly written and brought fully up-to-date to embrace the predominance of file-based digital production, this second edition offers new insights into ultra-high-resolution footage, transitions, visual effects, collaboration, sound and music editing, as well as highlighting historic advances in the art form.

By: John Rosenberg (University of Southern California USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 840g
ISBN: 9781138233805
ISBN 10: 1138233803
Pages: 334
Publication Date: 04 December 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Table of Contents 1. Prescriptions for Success 2. Mastering the Art of Film Editing 3. The Film Doctor Is In 4. The Instruments 5. Internal Medicine 6. Alternative Medicine 7. A Brief History of the Practice 8. Genre Editing Styles I 9. Genre Editing Styles II 10. Genre Editing Styles III 11. Surgery 12. Psychiatry of Character Disorders—Part I 13. Psychiatry of Character Disorders—Part II 14. Genetics 15. Cardiac Unit 16. Rites of Passage 17. Imaging 18. Audiology 19. Bedside Manner 20. Triage 21. Post-Mortem Glossary

John Rosenberg is a Hollywood-based film editor and professor at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where he teaches the aesthetics of motion picture editing. He attended UC Berkeley and UCLA, graduating with honors from the film school. As an editor, Rosenberg is credited on nearly three dozen feature films, including Prancer, Mannequin: On the Move , Playmaker, The Convent, and Brush with Danger—as well as television (Gift of Fear and National Geographic’s Expeditions from the Edge)—for such companies as 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate, Orion, New Line, and Artisan. He is the author of the award winning novel, Tincture of Time (2012).

Reviews for The Healthy Edit: Creative Editing Techniques for Perfecting Your Movie

The Healthy Edit is just what the doctor ordered! The analogy of the film editor as `doctor' is a fresh view into the complexities and vagaries of film editing. Rosenberg serves up hefty doses of ideas about structure, rhythm, pace and timing. Essential tools to diagnose and treat any `patient.' It is a perfect prescription for success! -Duwayne Dunham, Editor, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of The Jedi (1983), Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990), Twin Peaks (1990-1991, 2017) John Rosenberg is a remarkable teacher of the art of editing. So many USC students have benefited from his knowledge and experience. I am thrilled to see him share his insights beyond our campus so that many aspiring filmmakers can benefit. -Elizabeth M. Daley, Dean, USC School of Cinematic Arts John is a wonderful writer who captures the process of a master editor. With great insight into the interplay of cinematic storytelling and human psychology, he offers example after example of the challenges faced by films of every stripe and size. Using our common life experiences to illustrate why some choices work and others don't, John gets us to where the real magic happens - when the film takes on a life of its own. I highly recommend this book to students, teachers and professionals - whether editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers, anyone in every creative craft. -Jason Rosenfield, ACE John Rosenberg's discussions of genre-in particular, his take on the always-difficult practice of comedy editing-and how to manipulate time, are just two examples of the value of this book. His experience and his ability to craft words both contribute to a wonderful book that every student of cinema can learn from. -Norman Hollyn, Author, Speaker, Professor and Inaugural Holder, Michael Kahn Endowed Chair in Editing, USC School of Cinematic Arts