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
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.
“Battle of the Bastards” is the ninth and penultimate episode of the sixth season of HBO’s fantasy television series Game of Thrones and its 59th episode overall. It was praised as one of the series’ best episodes, with critics describing the battle in the North as “terrifying, gripping and exhilarating”. Its eponymous battle took 25 days to film and required 500 extras, 600 crew members and 70 horses.
Each episode my friend Tyler and I will analyze the editing of one iconic movie scene like this and you can follow along. So turn on the podcast, bring up the youtube clip by clicking the link below (when we tell you) and let’s get into it:
We also recap last week’s “LACPUG”, a monthly networking event for post production folks. While this takes place in Hollywood there are many meet-ups like this all over the country and we talk about the benefits of showing up.
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