media production

1. Understanding the Creative Media Sector Job Roles in the Film Industry

2.  Works closely with the Director to craft the finished film
 Runs a team of assistants and trainees on big productions
 Works in an edit suite for long hours

3. To do this role, you will need to:
 Have technical aptitude
 Have wide experience of the post production process
 Be familiar with a variety of computer editing equipment
 Understand dramatic storytelling to create rhythm, pace and tension
 Be creative under pressure
 Have imagination and an understanding of narrative
 Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills
 Have highly developed aesthetic visual awareness
 Be able to lead a team
 Have patience and attention to detail
 Have good organizational skills
 Understand the requirements of relevant health and safety laws and procedures.

4.  Editors select the best takes and edit them together to
create scenes. In some cases, an improvised line or an actor's
interpretation of their role may create some on-screen magic
that can be developed into a new and exciting scene.
 During the post production period, the Editor and the
Director work closely together, refining the assembly edit
into the Director's Cut, which must be approved by the
Producers, until they achieve picture lock or Fine Cut (when
the Director and/or Executive Producer give final approval of
the picture edit).

5.  You don’t need a specific qualification. But if you are
considering taking a film production course in higher
education, the following courses have been rigorously
assessed by the film industry and awarded the Creative
Skillset Tick for the high standard of education they provide
and the degree to which they prepare you for a career in film.

6.  Traditionally, you could go from being a Runner to aTrainee,
Second Assistant, First Assistant and eventually to become an
Editor. However, with digital editing, 2nd Assistants are now only
employed on very big budget films.
 If you can work with an Editor as an Assistant, you may be allowed
to carry out the assembly edit of some sections of the film. If you
can become an experienced Assistant, you may also work as an
Editor on short films, which will enable you to showcase your
talents.

7. Websites:
 BKSTS -The Moving Image Society - organises events, courses, and new equipment demos, and
publishes: CinemaTechnology, and ImageTechnology;
 BECTU - the trade union represents Editing & Post Production personnel;
 Shooting People - a forum on filmmaking
Publications:
 Editing and Post-production (Screencraft series published by Focal Press) by Declan McGrath;
 In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective of Film Editing (Silverman-James Press) byWalter Murch
 The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Film editing (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004)
 Screen Daily - online industry news service and weekly publication, Screen International
 Variety - a weekly publication for the film, television, music and interactive entertainment
industries
 American Cinematographer

8.  Thelma Schoonmaker was born on
January 3, 1940 in Algeria. She is an
editor, known for The
Departed (2006), The Aviator (2004),
Gangs of New York (2002), and The
Wolf of Wall Street (2013).
 In 2007 was ranked #32 on EW's
The 50 Smartest People in
Hollywood.
 In November 2007 was made an
honorary Fellow of Canterbury Christ
Church University.
 She was made a Fellow of the British
Film Institute in recognition of her
outstanding contribution to film
culture.

9.  Arthur Schmidt (born 1937 in Los
Angeles, California) is an American film
editor with about 27 film credits between
1977 and 2005.
 Schmidt received the Academy
Award for Best Film Editing for Who
Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Forrest
Gump(1994).
 In addition to these Oscars, Schmidt has
won several "Eddies" from the American
Cinema Editors for Pirates of the
Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
(with Craig Wood and Stephen E. Rivkin,
2003), Forrest Gump, and for a television
special The Jericho Mile (1979).