After we’ve gone through the mammoth task of viewing all of our raw footage and constructing our first assemblies, we can often feel deflated by what we see on our timeline. Our construction is often overly long, repetitive and full of errors as we go into the secondary stage of refinement. It’s here that a lot of editors new to the craft fall down.

A high-end editor is a creative artist who can immediately focus in on and streamline the sequence into what its true purpose and meaning really is. I love this subject, I get asked so much about it and I think there’s a lot of very interesting creative theory to be discussed around it.