Essays on Editing Page 2

Editing is something that if done well should barely be noticed by the untrained eye. It should be as subtle as a blink, and as Walter Murch suggests, with the same function as a blink. Cuts should be made to separate thoughts and to organize material in a way that allows us to intake material…

rStephanie Ralston Film Aesthetics and Analysis In the film, The Constant Gardener (Meirelles, 2005), the use of editing helps to convey a central theme of uncertainty. Another important theme that arises in the film is justice. Uncertainty progresses into a revealing of truth that leads the protagonist to seek justice. The plot follows a young…

Audacity, an internationally popular audio recording and editing software, is a powerful cross-platform program built with an open-source implementation layered upon several libraries that allow for its dynamic development. It was originally written in 1999 by Dominic Mazzoni, a research student at Carnegie Mellon. University, as a platform on which to develop and debug audio…

Having read Michaela Cullington’s “Texting and Writing,” I hold a different perspective from her. According to Cullington, texting does not affect students’ writing skills. Nevertheless, I am of the opinion that textspeak, which involves shortening and abbreviating words in text messages, does have an impact on students’ writing style. Frequently, they incorporate these abbreviations into…