I/V With Editor

I/V With Editor

In continuation from my previous blog post Editing Thriller, I mentioned our class would be asking questions to an editor named Michael Harrowes, who is well known editor currently working on a British Horror Drama. 

Our class wrote down a series of questions which we then asked Michael during a Skype Conference Call we hosted during one of our media lessons. We asked him multiple questions, but the majority of them revolved around what we could improve on/add to our Opening Sequences, which we are currently in the process of filming at this moment. He responded to the questions with some very useful feedback which our class, and our group in particular, will be taking into account. We had already accomplished some of the things he explained to us, however the majority of information he told us was new and therefore very beneficial to us.


The questions our class asked him were as follows:

• Can you name 3 keys things we should aim to achieve when creating our thriller Opening Sequences.
• Do you have any useful tips about what we could add to our Opening Sequences to improve the overall quality?
• What would you consider the most challenging aspect of editing?
• How would you say the way editing differs from when you go from editing a comedy to editing a thriller.
• How has the use of Foley enhanced the quality of your films in the past?
• How, using editing alone, can you increase the intensity of a film/opening sequence.
• Can you tell us about the importance of pace and rhythm within a film?
• How closely do you work with the Director in a film?
• In terms of editing, how would you describe the thriller genre itself and how it should be portrayed through editing.
• What element of the editing process do you yourself enjoy the most? 

Michael Harrowes - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0366037/