You don't have to witness an event to know that it happened.
Keeping that in mind makes it possible to cut a lot of big, unnecessary chunks out of a story. For example, if Laurel puts a pin in a piece of fabric, and an instant later there are six pins in it, the viewer's mind fills in the missing action.
While cutting down the next episode of Creating Fashion with Laurel, I've learned something else about editing. Check out the fast-paced back tacking in this six-second excerpt:
A brief action can be cut really close if it's perfectly clear what that action is. And you can have several actions in quick succession as long as they're all simple and obvious so the viewer can follow what's going on.
I've done this a few times in this episode. The challenge is to not cut the actions so tight that you can no longer tell what's happening.
The rough cut of the episode exists now. It's thirty-one minutes long. My mother watched it this morning and she and I are going to have an editing and graphics meeting later today.
It's looking like Episode 8 will be online within the first week of August.
