Key skills an elements in editing.

- Constructing an edit is a PROCESS not just A-Z, it all needs developing.
- Use an idea or strategy and stick to it so there is a sense of styl and it flows.
- Always remember that we are working toward a whole sequence not just a couple of shots.
- 'Moments' are the 'dramatic tension' around which an editor works.
- Always mark in and mark out, never drag and drop....work to the frame.
- Walter Murch - He completes 1.5 cuts per day. Spend the majority of time looking and thinking.
- We are directing the film for a second time. We are the 'new eye' exclusively dealing with cinematic space.
- Vsevolod Pudovkin used a range of shots thus bringing editing further and developing cinematic space.