What intrigued me the most about Bowtell’s presentation was his comment on how people, after having a lot experience with editing, can FEEL when a cut should be made. As I’m just a beginner I find that I have to watch the whole thing from the very beginning before I can notice awkward timing or choppy editing. The clip from the film “casino” which I had seen previous to the presentation when “Sam meets Ginger” was so clever it made grin creepily. Before I hadn’t noticed how heavily the revealing of Sam’s thoughts was driven by the editing; I just simply knew he had fallen in love with ginger. Maybe thats how you can tell when film has been edited well; if you gain meaning from the clip without explicitly being told or shown.