The Unrecognized Skills of Editing

          "I keep telling my editors, if you win an award for editing, I won't work with you anymore. Your editing shows". This is a quote from Louis Malle, director. He makes a point of how editing should not be a heavily noticed thing. If it shows, you are not doing a good job. 
          Potential setbacks to an editing session include limited footage, nonexistent natural sound, and a lack of continuity options (Osgood and Hinshaw 227). These are pointed out by Ronald Osgood and M. Joseph Hinshaw from their chapter "The Aesthetics of Editing" from the book Visual Storytelling. This stuck me especially since I just went through filming a couple of interviews for our class. I had to use a microphone so that the background noise would not overpower the interviewee's voice. There was one instance in which a cat came by and rubbed itself on the microphone and I was terrified that it would interrupt the sound quality. Thankfully it did not affect the sound and the voice of my interviewee came out clear. This also makes sense in that sometimes voices are b-rolled over a scene when the actors are too far away to make out their voices clearly. Do you think there should be more innovation where editors and filmmakers are concerned? Are they good where they stand? Why or why not?

Here is a video that shows some popular editing cuts that have mistakes in them:

          Later on, the authors mention the stylistic changes that the editors took into play as the years went on. The specific argument they use is the example of the music video narrative versus the artistic video. In other words, the story versus the dance music video. This as well as television commercials gave editors the chance to break into new territory editorial wise. They were able to play with different set ups and narratives, which set up the media industry as it is today. Do you think the industry should pick one type of narrative over the other? How do you think the changes came about? Was the culture an influence to the narratives or vice versa?

Here are a couple of music videos to compare narrative forms:

The story narrative:

The artistic narrative:

Here are a few advertisements from now and the past:

The past:

Now: