Mick audsley biography

Note: There are a few mild spoilers in this brief chat so best to see the film before you read on.

 

Film editing, in the days of actual film editing, was a physical, hands on profession.

You lugged heavy cans around, you laced celluloid in to the Moviola or Steenbeck and you physically cut your selects from the rushes to create what was known as ‘the cutting copy’. It was this that was moulded into what would become a fully-fledged motion picture experience.

Editors all have their stories, their common experiences to be shared with knowing looks with others who ply this fascinating trade.

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After all, the editor is central to the film making process, the final ‘writer’ one might say together with the director huddled over a small screen, the controlled chaos of production long behind them. In the cutting room ideas crystalise, are born and die.

The best are woven into the cut and it is in the cutting room that the film is ‘locked’ a