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Film editing : history, theory and
practice
Looking at the invisible
Looking at the invisible
The Author
The author, Don Fairservice, is an award- winning
freelance film editor who has taught at Britain's
National Film and Television School and the
Northern Film School in Leeds. After training in the
BBC Television Film Department he spent a
twenty-year period working for the corporation on
scores of television documentaries and dramas,
Since becoming freelance he has edited several
feature films and numerous television dramas,
winning the BAFTA Best Film Editing Award in 1989.
“Like most film editors, I learnt the craft by studying the way
that films had come to be edited and took advice on technique
from experienced colleagues. We all adopted the existing
conventions without question. But filmmaking that was
challenging convention convinced me that film form was by
no means a 'given', and this sent me somewhere I'd always
avoided going - on a journey into film history to look closely at
films from the cinema's past. I wanted to discover how film
structure developed - to explore the 'why' of film editing. what
I found was surprising and revealing - this book is the result.”