INFLUENCES

"An ideal cut is the one that satisfies all the following six criteria at once: 1) it is true to the emotion of the moment; 2) it advances the story; 3) it occurs at a moment that is rhythmically interesting and 'right;' 4) it acknowledges what you might call 'eye-trace'-the concern with the location and movement of the audience's focus of interest within the frame; 5) it respects 'planarity'-the grammar of three dimensions transposed by photography to two (the dimensions of stage-line, etc.); 6) and it respects the three-dimensional continuity of the actual space (where people are in the room and in relation to one another)."

~Walter Murch


"When I start cutting a movie, I always cut with ambivalence. I have a definite intention, a definite starting point: the dramatic function of the scene;. the psychology of the characters, etc. But when I become absorbed in the material, I suddenly see all the possibilities the material contains. The unexpected, intended and unintended possibilities. I can't help wandering into the material. I milk the material for all the small possibilities I see in it. A look, a smile - after the director has said "cut!", an unintentional juxtaposition of two images. Afterwards I form a general view again. But it is in the ambivalence, in the collision between the general strategy and the pleasant distractions along the way that constitutes editing as art; the true life of the film."

~Dede Allen

REFERENCES

• Gate City Film Works       View Reference Letter
• Double Bass Productions       View Reference Letter
• Silver Penny Productions       View Reference Letter

ADDITIONAL EDUCATION:

• Director's workshop at Sedona Film Festival - March 2005
• Larry Jordan's "Supercharge Your Editing" - February 2006
• Larry Jordan's "The High End of FCP" - February 2006
• Moviola Digital Education Center "Final Cut Pro" - August 2007
• Women In Film Entertainment Forum - October 2007

CREDITS AS AN EDITOR:

• A Warrior's Journey Home (Documentary) (Assist Edit) | Running time 115 minutes — Starring Alan Young & Jonathan Shay
• Cast This (Webisode series, Comedy) | Running time 30 minutes (broken down into 2 & 1/2 to 3 minutes per webisode) — Starring Julia Flint
• My Life with 6 Months To Live (Documentary) | Running time 63 minutes
• Kids & Strangers (Instruction Video) | Running time 57 minutes — Guest Starring Henry Simmons & Cristina Perez
• The Catholic Church of Elvis (Comedy, Drama, Semi-Auto Biographical) | Running time: 93 mins — Starring Mercy Malick
• The Making Of: Father Xmas (Documentary) | Running time 9 minutes — Starring Dakota Fanning & Marie Rose
• Due (Foreign, Drama) | Running time 12 minutes — Starring Claudia Ruffo & Mario Opinato
• Bling (Action, Adventure, Heist) | Running time 6.5 minutes — Starring Sierra Fisk & D.C. Douglas
• The World Is My Drum Vol. 2 (Instruction Video) | Running time 116 minutes — Starring Mike Wittmers
• Autonomy (Drama) | Running time 11 minutes — Starring Stella Tryon & Karnell Matthews
• Think About Your Body (Documentary) | Running time 5 mins — Starring Caroline Sutherland
• Totally Baked (Stand-up Comedy) | Running time 10 mins — Starring Tom Rhodes & Doug Benson
• Spirit In A Bottle (documentary) | Running time 26 mins — Starring Jim Clendenen