The Mismagic of Editing

The hardest thing about being an editor is that nobody has any concept of what you do for a living. Nobody has any idea what the editor does other than, oh yeah, well, you take the footage that they shoot and you take out the bad parts and you make it shorter. The best way that I can describe this to people that don't really understand the process is you imagine for a second a film set. It is my job or the editor's job to sift through every single second, not only every second, but in every second. There are 24 frames. We have all these lights. You've got these cameras. They're spending millions of dollars. All of it goes