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Through Marc Rodriguez’s experience, it describes how editors transform dozens of hours of footage into a coherent, story-driven film, matching sound to on-screen action with patience and precision. 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They think about the quality of the acting. Some might even remark on how well the movie was directed. Almost no one says: \"Boy, that movie was really well edited!\"  \nThis is a dilemma that every film editor faces. Their work, while crucial to the success of a film, is rarely celebrated. Many don't even know that the job title \"Film Editor\" exists. People win Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director. No one seems to care about the Best Editor.  \n\"Everyone knows that Meryl Streep has won three Academy Awards for acting,\" says Marc Rodriguez, a professional film editor based in New York City. \"Nobody knows that Michael Kahn has won three Academy Awards for film editing.\"  \nRodriguez graduated from film school at New York University in Manhattan. As a teenager, he was always shooting footage of his friends on his family's video camera. He worshipped legendary directors like Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. Someday, he thought, I will make films of my own.  \nSo after graduating from film school, Rodriguez took a job as an editor of television commercials. The idea was to make some money to afford making a feature-length film. But as he got more involved in editing, he fell in love with it. At 37 years old, he still hopes to direct a film. But film editing has become both his passion and his full-time job.  \nSpeaking over the phone from his office in Brooklyn, Rodriguez explained what exactly a film editor does.  \n\"I don't want to take too much credit,\" says Rodriguez, a stocky guy with floppy red hair, \"but we essentially bring the film to life. For a big feature film, a director will often shoot over 100 hours of footage. Documentary filmmakers tend to shoot even more hours, because they don't know what the story is when they start. As the editor, it is my job to cut all that footage down to an hour and a half.\"  \n\"As you can imagine,\" Rodriguez adds, \"this requires a lot of time and patience.\"  \nLuckily, Rodriguez is a patient man. Directors tend to have less patience. Their job involves gathering footage and making sure the actors get along. But after the film shoot is over, the director's job is pretty much done; he or she hands over the footage to the editor. The editor is then tasked with taking out everything that doesn't fit in the story.  \nRodriguez works alone in a small, quiet office. His job requires intense amounts of concentration. On his desk, he keeps two computer monitors. One allows him to check the Internet and answer emails. The other is for editing films.  \nA typical day involves editing a 20 to 30 second scene of a movie. That's right: an entire day spent going over the same 20 or 30 seconds of a movie. In the end, this is how movies get made. As the editor, Rodriguez matches the sound with what is happening on-screen. He makes sure the storyline flows from scene to scene. He ensures that the stars of the film appear in as flattering a light as possible.  \n\"For me, editing is like putting together a giant puzzle in which most of the pieces don't fit,\" he says with a laugh. \"You look closely at all the footage. You examine it to see whether it should go into the final cut, as we call it. In the end, though, only a tiny percentage of the original footage makes it into the actual film.\"  \nNow and then, Rodriguez says, he decides that he does not have enough footage to make a film. In such cases, the director is forced to film new scenes. This can be stressful for everyone involved. The actors may already be acting in other films or TV shows. The camera operator-the person who holds the camera-may have moved on as well. And yet the director must get everyone back together to shoot the final scenes. Otherwise the movie may never be completed.  \n\"You really don't want to tell directors that they have to shoot more footage,\" Rodriguez says. \"It's something they really do not want to hear.","cbCaieSO9jaJrJ3B","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieSO9jaJrJ3B","pdf",58977,"English","# The Film Editor\n## Why editors are overlooked\n## What film editors do\n## Rodriguez’s background and workflow","[{\"question\":\"What does a film editor actually do in the filmmaking process?\",\"answer\":\"A film editor cuts large amounts of footage down to match the story, ensuring the storyline flows from scene to scene and aligning sound with on-screen action.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the author contrast directors and editors?\",\"answer\":\"Directors handle gathering footage and coordinating during production, while editors work afterward—taking out what does not fit and shaping the final cut with intense concentration and patience.\"},{\"question\":\"Why can film editing require filming additional scenes?\",\"answer\":\"If there is not enough usable footage to complete the film, directors must film new scenes, which can be stressful because the cast and crew may already be committed elsewhere.\"}]","The Film Editor - A Profile of Film Editing | PDF"]