In my investigations as I chose to read the written interview in Sight and Sound entitled:‘A Man of Excess: Paul Schrader on Jean Renoir’ (1995).

There’s something about European film sensibility that draws me, particularly the works of Ernst Lubitsch who is still hailed the king of European film elegance.It is Lubitsch’s work that excites me when researching other European filmmakers and their influence.

This interview centralises on French director Jean Renoir. One particular aspect of the reading drew me; that is Paul Shrader discussing how the “secrets of fluid editing is to get the actors’ movements to force the cuts, so they don’t seem arbitrary” (pg.29). I love this insight because it directly links to what I previously discussed in my past blogs, which is the awkwardness of cuts that just frame the character for several moments as they do nothing but prepare themselves for speech. This one quote is really inspiring because now I have more purpose when directing something with characters whereby the jump cuts have impetus and do not awkwardly draw attention to their construction. This inspires me to focus on fluidity when next designing a storyboard and even when editing to consider alternative avenues whereby the actor movement encourages the cuts.