Katz’s excerpts detail the importance of visualization, storyboarding and shot construction in pre-production. He explains how a detailed pre-production can improve the work of an editor, making his/her job easier. It is in pre-production that shot construction occurs, and the way shots are linked are already visualized, and therefore the job of the editor is not to create these links between shots, but link them through cutting.

Katz uses detailed analysis of pre-existing storyboards from films such as Star Wars and The Purple Rose of Cairo to demonstrate how important they were in the construction of the film. The visualization of specific scenes in pre-production matches the scenes shot for the finished film, and Katz highlights how the shots were already visually constructed before the set was created. Seeing as the book was written in 1991, the capabilities of an editor has severely changed since then, due to the improvement of editing software and camera quality. However, that being said, there is still a great importance placed on storyboarding, and it’s ability to help an editor in post-production.

This excerpt is helpful as it details the importance of pre-production, and highlights how the elements that make up a shot are constructed before the camera is even rolling. This differs from the other sources I have used, seeing as though they focus mainly on the actual editing of footage, either during production or in post-production. Whilst this doesn’t specifically talk about cutting footage, it does demonstrate that the way in which shots are connected is decided upon in pre-production.