
Art of the Cut, Ep. 160: "Euphoria" Editors, Julio C. Perez, Aaron I. Butler, and Laura Zempel
Art of the Cut
The Importance of Drag Netting in Documentary Editing
Drag netting all the time, I think weighs down and becomes anti-cinematic. At a certain point, is it audience-to-ever? You're like, why don't you see anybody say anything? Anything works. When it comes down to it, you have a few rules that you might need for most things. But you could break those rules in any number of circumstances if it ends up being the most effective technique. That's what you've got to do in documentary sometimes. If we had just straight up who's saying it, keep them on screen and go back and forth, you miss so much of the subtext. We might have tried something close to that
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