Once Upon a Timeline

Within just a few short years Carly's grit, determination and relentless pursuit of her dream to edit high-end drama has paid off as you can now see her work on the latest season of the BBC/HBO drama Industry.

We love inspiring stories on Once Upon a Timeline and not only does this episode have a ton of inspiration but it's also jam-packed with incredibly useful information for any editor.

And today's guest on Once Upon a Timeline has one of those great stories. The hugely talented Carly Brown has worked on a unique range of genres as she rose up the editing ladder. From short promos to quick turnaround sport's shows to documentaries and all the way up to high-end drama.

We're very lucky to have this amazing editor as our first guest on Season 3 and I know you'll love this first part of her interview.

But without an in depth look at why they happen and all of the many ways we can actually benefit from them, we'll never look at them as anything but an inconvenience.

This week's show is an encyclopaedic study of this enormous part of our art form. We're going to look at the numerous types of jump cuts, how they work, how they can benefit us and what the rules are for using them in our cutting patterns.

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In this week's episode of Once Upon a Timeline I discuss the power balance in the edit suite and all of the psychological aspects at play. What do directors want? How do they think? What do they need from us outside of our creativity?

Most importantly we're going to discuss the behavioural techniques and thought processes that can not only mitigate negativity and ego but also turn this vital creative relationship into a fruitful and fulfilling partnership.

As visual storytellers we need to concern ourselves with many different types of arcs that are never really talked about in the editing world. And so to kick off Season 3 of Once Upon a Timeline we’re going to demystify, breakdown and explain everything you need to consider when designing these crucial narrative structures.

The emphasis on kit and keeping up with all of the latest equipment really does negate the one true aspect of filmmaking which we should all be focusing on more than anything else. It's also the thing our audiences love to see.

Tune in to this week's episode of Once Upon a Timeline to hear an in-depth discussion on this controversial subject and my thoughts on where we should be putting all our attention.

They save us, they help us and they make sense in a world full of chaos. Like a thousand editors before me, I've spent large parts of my career using these words to construct the essential journalistic structure and logic of so many scenes.

What are these three words? Well, I'm sorry but you're just gonna have to tune in to this week's episode of Once Upon a Timeline to find out. Guaranteed, these three words will elevate your skills as an editor so be sure not to miss the show!

On this week's show I'm going to break down and talk through all of the advantages to this perishable skill and show that there are many art forms that can teach us how to embrace complexity.

This is not something to be intimidated by and run from, it's something to study, learn and weave into our narrative skills. We want to be known as an editor who can handle any situation from the simplistic all the way to the highly problematic.

Care and attention need to be paid to how we structure our edit, but we must also take a deeper look at how we get a huge return on every creative investment we make on the timeline.

In this week’s episode of Once Upon a Timeline, I'll be breaking down the factors at play and talking through a battle plan that maximises our creative Return on Investment. We don’t want to leave this to chance like playing the lottery, we want to maximise our artistic dividends by sound investment.

Nothing should leave our edit suite without us making it the very best it can be and going through and pruning all of the last details to make sure everything is perfect is essential.

In this week's show, I'm going to break down exactly what we look for during this stage and how we cultivate this particular mindset. If we get it right, the sense of satisfaction and completion is utterly addictive!