Ehrlich (#8) says the whole structure of My Octopus Teacher comes from its interview. Lanzmann's Shoah (#5) is that idea at nine hours.
A video to make: take one long interview and lay out its structure on cards before touching footage. Then ask Ehrlich's question of the ending: did it cut easily because the interview had already decided it? Compare with how hard the opening was to find.
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Ann Collins (#12) says the opening is cut last and the ending is the easier part, found by asking subjects how the story changed them. Two editors this week describe endings found a different way.
Nels Bangerter (#53, Dick Johnson Is Dead) says the fake funeral was the first thing shot, and the team realized "it could end as well as beginning there." Gabriel Rhodes (#54, Time) closes on a sequence played in reverse, with the mother returning, chosen so she is not shown too rosily. …
Two films that put the cut on screen. Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (#6) has no intertitles, no actors and no story; a day in Soviet cities is assembled entirely in the edit. Jonathan Rosenbaum's essay on F for Fake (#11) reads Welles's film as a documentary about fakery, one that hides small tells for a second viewing: a misspelled word in the credits, outtakes reused. …
Chad Herschberger (#13) describes cutting 78/52 from four buckets of material instead of an A-to-B arc, with interviews marked for the best takes and spread out so no single voice lectures. The editors of Fantastic Machine (#27) describe two structures running at once, a historical one from 1828 and an associative one, both found in the edit and tuned by screening for audiences. …
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