I can only assume this week’s guest talk on editing will lead to editing our media profiles in the tutorial. I have slightly struggled with this weeks assignment to gather a “media profile ” of 6 pictures, 2 audio clips and 3 videos. I feel a little narcissistic compiling photos of myself, so in the videos and a few pictures, i’m trying to show things i enjoy, rather than me enjoying them.

Back to editing however, it’s a part of media I shy away from, especially in cinema. Or rather, I rarely notice it.
Working on my last short film, I was pretty much useless in the editing suite. I don’t know how to use any of the technology we were using, But that didn’t mean I don’t have an eye for editing. I can totally pick up on when a shot felt “wrong” or when cuts are too fast or slow. There were a few in the last Hunger Games movie, but then again they were using footage of the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I would say my favourite editing is in the film Whiplash, but I watched it after knowing it won awards for the editing so I actively noticed it, making that statement a little biased.

Yet nothing passes this as my favourite editing sequence. Truly Iconic.