Todays guest speaker Liam Ward spoke about editing. He described it as fragmenting clips and piecing them together again like a mosaique. By placing 2 things side by side we create meaning and association. Composing fragments and creating a sequence allows the audience to read into the story. Audiences are automatically searching for meaning and sense in the things they view. We tend not to just accept what we are seeing, we have a desire to create an association between frames that are pieced side by side. I used to fear editing my clips, I didn’t like breaking the shots that I had worked to hard to compose. By cutting and re-piecing clips I was able to create rhythm and movement in the sequence. I found that composing the clips this was more intriguing to audiences then viewing mass chunks of footage. Ward mentioned that editing in conjunction with the way the human mind works, enables us to create magic tricks and games with footage. He made an example using Taylor Swift lyrics. These simple white words on a black page caused our brains to disperse out to images and snippets of Taylor Swift. We hear the song in our heads and recall personal associations and memories we have with song. The bigger the gap of association between the 2 juxtaposed images the harder the audience has to work to draw a connection. This makies it more satisfying as the audience is forced to interpret the piece, it has a higher artistic elements.