This Guy Edits is a YouTube channel with over 470,000 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 onto 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
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.
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.*
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.
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.
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A film comes together in the editing… so they say. At the same time, editing is an “invisible art” and a good cut is often the one you don’t notice.
Now you can see the magic come alive, when I open up my editing timeline and let you shadow me as I cut scenes on this upcoming historical crime thriller “Effigie – Poison and the City”, shot in the Hanseatic cities of Rostock and Bremen, Germany. The film is directed by Udo Flohr and produced by Patricia Ryan and Udo Flohr.
