
Oscar-winning editor Tom Cross, ACE on editing Damien Chazelle's "Babylon"
Art of the Cut
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How to Set Up a Movie for the Audience
I always loved that the party was a little bit of a roadmap for most of what follows. It gives after all of this ugliness or messiness or whatever you want to call it before, it kind of gives the characters their dignity in a way. So I would make adjustments with Damien, which included rough music edits that Damien and I would do. And we'd send it over to Justin and then he would make the music edits, he would recompose it to take into account our music edits. And then we would adjust picture. Sometimes Damien and I Would be happy with what we had with ... but Justin on his own would be refining for what he wanted.
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