University of Connecticut OpenCommons@UConn Honors Scholar Theses Honors Scholar Program Spring 5-10-2009 Making A Story Move: The Art of Film Editing Daniel Gross University of Connecticut - Storrs,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://opencommons.uconn.edu/srhonors_theses Part of the Communication Commons, and the Film and Media Studies Commons Recommended Citation Gross, Daniel, "Making A Story Move: The Art of Film Editing" (2009). Honors Scholar Theses. 93. https://opencommons.uconn.edu/srhonors_theses/93 1 Making a Story Move: The Art of Film Editing By Daniel Gross University of Connecticut Honors Thesis 5/1/2009 2 Abstract An in-depth treatise on the process of film editing, featuring 16 original interviews from renowned editors. These editors share insight and anecdotes about the daily joys and difficulties of their careers (and the professional principles they subscribe to), as well as the creative, interpersonal, and technical challenges they constantly face. Discussion of the “MTV influence” behind modern film editing is offered, and this influence is explored in filmmaking history. Advice and inspiration is also shared for the benefit of future film editors; Hollywood editors tell their own stories about how they thrived in a notoriously-difficult field, and what it would take for an aspiring editor to do the same. Acknowledgements Theo Van Alst – the big-hearted champion of my film education, and my student filmmaker career David Atkin – the good-humored savior of my UConn Honors experience,