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thoughts on week 3 class “How does an editor cut”

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how do you know when to cut? You feel it.

editing is a reflection of your thinking process The eyes convey more things than an actual dialogue.
The moments when you can see a change in the actors eyes are powerful. I was thinking about this last week when we went to see the movie Logan. I know Logan the film out of any film you could go see. I know. I was looking at actors eyes an this kid who is about 12 years old is one of the main characters and she doesn’t really ever speak but she conveys everything with her eyes. And that was what made the movie so intense and dramatic.
how much time do I give this emotion? what do you feel while watching this.
the editor of Logan definitely had this in mind because a lot of the shots in the film build up in the sequence of the film.
How do they justify this?
In a way its the last movie for this character thats been around for a long time so I think this film out of all the film had to justify such tensions with long dragged out film. Its the last one ya know?

Week 3 Scott McCloud, ‘Blood in the Gutter’

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Blood in the Gutter

by ScottMcCloud

 

This comic toys with the idea of object permanence, something which to babies seems completely unnatural, but to adults an entirely normal process. But the comic tests us: what, if anything, has changed? We still can only see what we see, hear what we hear, sense what we sense. And yet for adults, we could not live our lives were it not for faith in what we expect to exist, when and where we need it and “know” it to be true, and yet we cannot prove sensually, individually.

 

What would that mean, anyway, to prove it exists? If the individual is the only measure of what is real, what is our definition of real? Can we even say “our” definition, when my definition is the only one that I can prove?

 

What “we” can say, for sure, is that these gutters between the comic panels, when all of our senses are mustered to fill in the blanks, can only be proven to be true in retrospect. We cannot fill in the gutters until we have looked at the panels on both of its sides. We need to inspect the panels of other works of the same author, of the same era, genre, location, to piece together our one, simple gutter. And all of this would take place without us even realising it.

 

If we spend our lives wandering, our minds interpreting and filling in the blanks, if anything, the truth between the panels can only be true if we all have all of the panels. I think this is also true for film. In film we can only see on the screen “chopped up bits” of what the director wants us so see. Media can portray so much more than what we see with our eyes, it also makes us feel, it doesn’t necessarily need to be an action it can be like in a video we saw about eyes conveying more than anything.