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I make videos about creative editing

This Guy Edits is a YouTube channel with over 520,000 subscribers where you can watch this guy edit. I’m an ACE Award nominee who cut for James Cameron, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Sundance filmmaker Mark Webber.

You might have heard the saying: ‘Great editing is invisible.’ While that may be true, I aim to shed a little light on the craft. I’m not saying that I have achieved greatness or ever will. This channel is simply about helping you (and me) become more aware of the creative power of editing and celebrating the “invisible performers in the editing room.”

My favorite book on Film Editing is “In the Blink of an Eye” by Academy Award winner Walter Murch: http://amzn.to/20ujg6B

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WHAT IT TAKES To Edit Big TV Shows

Josh cut on House of Cards, Bloodline and currently edits COUNTERPART (w/ Oscar Winner J.K. Simmons). Here’s his take on cutting it in Television.

Counterpart is a sci-fi thriller on STARZ. Editor Josh Beal is currently editing Season 2 and allows us an inside view of his timeline as he demonstrates scene work and speaks to:

– The editor’s role
– Storytelling techniques
– The workflow on a TV show
– The responsibility of the Assistant Editor
– How to become a TV Editor

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The Go-To Editor Course

My premium online editing course is open for  enrollment, for the second class. Hundreds of students signed up and are now busy working on their craft. If you like to check out the course, visit the course page.

The Go-To Editor is designed to put your editing career on a path of success.
This course is for beginners and intermediates and can be used with any editing system. As a matter of fact, if you don’t have any editing software, I’ll show you in the course how to get started with DaVinci Resolve (which is a free download). The course has 6 Modules and covers basic editing, advanced storytelling, branding and career strategies. It includes dailies from various genres (narrative, documentary, branded) with several scenes for each, so you can build an entire story arc.
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EFFIGY: Opening Today for Streaming

For a limited time only, Effigy – Poison and the City, the period thriller I recently edited, will be available for online streaming by Laemmle Virtual Cinema. The film is available for the U.S. market but should also be accessible through a VPN service (Virtual Private Network) from anywhere in the world.*

Check out the film here.

The film won the Grand Prize (Golden Aphrodite) at the Cyprus International Film Festival (CYIFF), and I was honored with the Best Editing Award. The Hollywood Reporter and the New York Times just recently reviewed the film favorably, and we are currently in consideration for the Golden Globes as Best International Film.

Effigy – Poison and the City is Udo Flohr’s first feature, which he also co-produces. It’s the true story of Gesche Gottfried, one of the first female serial killers ever identified, who murdered 15 people with rat poison between 1813 and 1827. She was found guilty of killing her parents, her three children, her twin brother, three husbands, and some friends and neighbors. Another 20 victims were lucky enough to survive. In 1831, Gottfried was executed for her crimes at age 46.

Effigy was shot in Germany. Thomas Kist, N.S.C. handled the cinematography. The screenplay was written by Peer Meter (based on his own stage play and on original court records), Udo Flohr, and Antonia Roeller. Set design by Christina v. Ahlefeldt-Laurvig and Knut Splett-Henning.

Effigy stars Suzan Anbeh, Elisa Thiemann in her first lead role, Christoph Gottschalch, Roland Jankowsky, Uwe Bohm, Marc Ottiker, Marita Marschall, Tom Keidel, Eugen Krössner, Christian Intorp, and many others.

Here is a conversation with Udo and myself, as we discuss the editing process of the film and what it took to pull off the project.

* International Viewers: A VPN allows you to hide your internet location and access content that is restricted to certain countries or regions. Don’t have a VPN yet or not sure how that works. Check out Surfshark, a brand sponsor of This Guy Edits, here.

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WHAT IT TAKES To Edit Documentaries

Mohamed El Manasterly is one of the Emmy Winning editors of “The Square”. This 2013 Egyptian-American documentary film by Jehane Noujaim depicts the ongoing Egyptian Crisis until 2013, starting with the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 at Tahrir Square. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards. It also won three Emmy Awards at the 66th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, out of four for which it was nominated.

In this video Manasterly opens up his timelines to demonstrate how he organizes the dailies by themes and characters and how to ultimately arrive at a 3-act structure for a full-length documentary.