EDITORS

Editors:
This entry should be more about the role of the editor in the film process. You could choose your favourite editor and use them to illustrate the role of the editor. You should aim to answer the following questions:

- Who do editors work with?
It depends of the flexibility of the editor, in some cases, they have a separate auditory so they may work with the whole team, while in other cases, they may give the editor the raw material and "manage you way to edit it".


- Can you see, define, or even tell an editor's style
No, it's almost impossible at our position, maybe if you are another film editor, you can recognize anotherone's work. As Agnès Guillemot, editor of her last film "Un steack trop cuit" (1960) stated "It is possible to recognize the “footprint” of an editor as it is that of an orchestra conductor of a musical work. But the editor must embrace the personal rhythm of each director and not impose her own."


- How do editors define their work on production, or their own work?
They define their work as putting together the "stuff" gaved to them, or in other words to join the puzzle. Although this work is not on production but better said post-production work.

- How much creativity, or flexibility, are editors allowed - do they make any decisions or are the final cuts in the hands of the producers and directors?
I think it's kind of question one. "I would say there have been two main influences: 1) The good director who provides enough material to allow total flexibility—for his ideas, and for his tenacity. 2) The poor director, who provides indifferent material and often not enough of it. Here the editor’s left with only one way to go—to pull something out of the bag." Ernest Walter.

- How has the process of editing, technically or creativiely, changed over time?
The editing job has been changed through time in a possitive way, although its complex with the time, it has more support from technology advances. Renée Claude Lichtig, a XX century, french editor stated for the Editors Guild Magazine "The greatest transformation in the editing of the films of the Sixties was brought about by Jean-Luc Godard. He found a new continuity in the manner of telling a story in time by utilizing ellipses in the editing of the images. These changes took place after the first films of Godard. He influenced the filmmakers of the whole world."


- What will you do in the pre-production and production stages to fulfil your role as an editor?
Work together with the cinematographer and the director, in this case Matias Bianchi and Francisco Guerini, because in response to what we agree my decisions will vary, this is why I need to be involved in the discussions. I will always talk to my group before editing what I want, to see if they agree.