3 editors?
why does this movie have 3 editors. there are no cuts!
shareTo create credits at the start and end, and for conforming and colour grading.
They don't just 'eject' the HD tape and hand it over!
The editors would trim the start and end, add credits, and would go through the whole production and make very slight colour balance changes, and brighten or darken any extreme problems. Remeber, they walked a camera from inside a building to outside and back and from room to room, and the camera assistant would have done a good job but not a perfect one at balancing the lighting levels.
They have a digital cut at the ending of the movie, when the camera goes outside of the museum and takes the sea. There is no sea in front of L'Hermitage! The independent mexican film "Real Time" (Tiempo Real) is a real one-take movie, and it is the first in film history, it was made before Russian Ark.
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There is no sea, but there is Neva river just across a street from the Winter Palace, and it's quite wide at that point so it may *look* like a sea...
shareyes yes yes i realize all this stuff. but i just found it weird that it had 3 main credited editors for a movie with no cuts when a movie with 100 has 1.
shareIf those three editors did all the color timing and color correction that you talk about then they wouldn't be labeled as the "editors". they'd be labeled as the "color timer" and "color corrector".
shareThe final shot has been digitally enhanced. You see the original shot in the "Making Of" feature.
shareNo, they were digital editors. They digital edited what you see on camera. Also, sound editing was key, because mostly all the sound was done in post-production. It's understandable, since there's no way someone could film a whole 90+ minutes without some background noise from crew members, asking if everybody was all set in the next room. Also, did you notice how the Marquee was facing away from the camera for so much of his dialogue?
Don't think for a second that this cheapens the film at all. The Russian Ark is a remarkable accomplishment. Sound, lighting and color may have been altered. But the placement of the actors, as well as the angling of the camera were all permenant fixtures in the final product.
Yes, and the same goes for sound mixing, so I'm as confused as you are.
shareEditors do not color time nor color correct (the lab does it with assistance from DP). They do not "digitally enhance" (digital FX artists do). They do not edit the sound (that's the sound editor). They do not work on the titles or credits.
Editors just edit the picture. For a film withouts any cuts, there should be NO EDITORS.
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this depends on the budget. Some times the editor wears many hats. I've edited productions where I had to work on color grading and the sound mix.
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