“The foundation of film art is editing” The syntax of cinema; its grammatic language Shots arejoined into scenes; editing eliminates unnecessary time and place (V.I. Pudovkin) “Films are a series of details–details within details.” (Jerry Greenberg, Scarface, 1983). “Everything on the shooy is just raw material. A motion picture is basically made in the editing […]
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