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THE EDITING MANUAL - Editing techniques in cinema and audio-visual
communication
(Manuale del montaggio - Tecnica dell’editing nella comunicazione cinematografica
e audiovisiva)
Diego Cassani
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The publication
Martin Scorsese in defining the most particular and decisive practice
of creating and increasing the illusion of reality said that the pioneers
of cinema had invented a new language based on images rather than on words,
a "visual grammar" which includes close-ups, diaphragms, gauzes,
camera panning, dolly shots.
The art of editing is substantially the language used to narrate a story
in moving pictures - in short, it is cinema, to quote Eisenstein.
Diego Cassani looks at all the aspects surrounding "visual language"
and audio-visual communication in the broadest sense - from the documentary
to the sit com, from the music video to cinema fiction. He analyses problems,
highlights conventions and illustrates types, instruments and techniques
perfectly.
The theory and practice of film editing represent the core of this book.
It provides a cross-sectional approach looking into script writing, direction,
scenery and setting, as well as photography, making it the first and most
complete manual on editing published in Italy.
The author
Diego Cassani, an editor and multi-media director, lectures in Editing
Theory and Non-Linear Editing at the School of Cinema-Fondazione SCM in
Milan.
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