Dave Robinson: March 2008 Archives

Hawaii - The Editor's Take

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To paraphrase a well-known chef, author and TV personality, making television is a lot like making sausage. Some seemingly strange and terrible things happen in the process, but the end result is usually very satisfying.  So to follow this analogy through, if making TV is like making sausage then, I suppose editing would be like the part where the various bits are stuffed into the intestinal casing.  Thankfully, this is all just metaphorical; I’ve yet to actually use an intestinal casing in any project. Anyway, the point is-- editing a very satisfying job (this show especially so).  The amount of creative input you’re afforded, the opportunity to shape something from a rough outline & raw footage to a finished product is great, and I’m lucky to have this for a career.  But at the end of the day, who the hell knows what an editor really does? I’ve been working in this field for a few years now, and it’s still not a simple question for me to answer …

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