Right now I’m my second Lectorial for Media 1 ever, and we’re taking a ‘break’ to give a shot at making another blog post before we start up the next task. We just had a guest speaker, an RMIT Alumni, Jeremy Bowtell. He talked to us for about 10 minutes about editing, shedding some light onto a bit of the history. He started off by explaining that editing overall, is about ‘holes, spaces between and gaps’ as well as juxtapositions. Jeremy gave us some historical examples – such as Eisenstein who created the very earliest example of what we know as a montage and someone who suggested that film must be a ‘tendentious (argumentative) selection and juxtaposition’ which should influence the audience in the desired direction. Other examples Jeremy presented were people like Edward Dmytrk, who believed you should never cut unless you’re doing it for a specific reason – and Walker Murch, who focuses more on emotion, story and rhythm. The presentation also showed 2 different clips – I have to say I was more interested in the Scorcese scene than the early black and white. I’ve never seen “Casino”, but now I’m a little intrigued.