S1E16. Building Creative Freedom: The Career of an Editing Nomad

S3S5. In-House vs Freelance Editing: It’s one of the age-old questions an editor asks themselves at some point in their career… should I go in-house at a production company, broadcaster, or studio. Or should I throw caution to the wind and jump into a freelance lifestyle? by Once Upon a Timeline

36 min listen

S4E4. The Art of Pivoting: What happens when we spend hours cutting a sequence, we think we’ve done a great job but then the client comes in and doesn’t like it at all? An every day occurrence in a pro edit suite. by Once Upon a Timeline

33 min listen

S4E3. Creative Actions vs Creative Reactions: On this week’s show I’ll be talking about a mindset that is hugely important in long form. Creative actions and the creative reactions that happen on our timeline as a result. by Once Upon a Timeline

33 min listen

S4E2. Scene Modelling: Understanding Creative Archetypes: On this week’s show I’ll be talking about sequence archetypes/scene modelling. The benefits we gain as editors in analysing and categorising as many different scenes and sequences in other people’s work as possible, is incredibly useful. It widens our abilities and makes us better editors. by Once Upon a Timeline

36 min listen

S4E1. The Checklist: An Essential Creative Inventory: And we’re back. Did you miss us? We missed you! We’re kicking off Season Four of Once Upon a Timeline with an in depth discussion around the checks and balances of sequence quality. There’s so many creative skills we need to apply to any one scene or sequence and it can be daunting trying to remember them all before we hand a cut over to our client for approval. by Once Upon a Timeline

38 min listen

S3E17. The Director's Perspective: In Conversation with Suemay Oram Part 2: We can learn an enormous amount about editing from listening to editors. But we can also learn an enormous amount from listening to the creative people we work with every single day, the people who employ us... directors. by Once Upon a Timeline

44 min listen

S3E16. The Director's Perspective: In Conversation with Suemay Oram Part 1: As editors we spend most of our careers talking to just one person... a director. The quality of that communication and how we craft that relationship is often the difference between a successful or unsuccessful career. And so it makes perfect sense to try and understand the thought process of these important creative people in our lives. by Once Upon a Timeline

50 min listen

S3E15. The Subtle Art of Narrative Sprinkling: This week we're talking subtly! After an editor has mastered all of the more obvious fundamental skills of building scenes they are then forced to wade through the thousands of shades of grey, the shades that can show exactly where they are in creative maturity. One such shade is the art of Narrative Sprinkling. by Once Upon a Timeline

35 min listen

S3E14. The Observer Effect: Quantum Mechanics in the Edit Suite: This week we're going a bit left field. There is a phenomenon in quantum mechanics known as The Observer Effect. It states that a situation is often changed by observing it. The fascinating thing is that applying it to certain aspects of filmmaking can make us better editors. by Once Upon a Timeline

34 min listen

S3E13. Promo-itus: The Perilous Journey From Short to Long Form Editing: One of the most well trodden paths in the editing world is to start off in short form promo content and then move onto longer form projects. It's a difficult journey as clients won't trust us with the larger budgets that long form requires until we've proven we can work to briefs, communicate well in the edit suite and deliver on time. by Once Upon a Timeline

36 min listen

S3E12. How I Edited Top Gun Maverick: Eddie Hamilton Exclusive Part 2: Ok, play time is over. This week, we are going supersonic with the concluding part of our exclusive Top Gun Maverick special episode of Once Upon a Timeline. Hollywood editor Eddie Hamilton is back on the show to tell us what really went on during the edit of one of the most anticipated movies of the decade. by Once Upon a Timeline

43 min listen

S3E11. How I Edited Top Gun Maverick: Eddie Hamilton Exclusive Part 1: What was is like editing one of the most anticipated Hollywood action movies of the decade? We’re really excited to have our dear friend Eddie Hamilton back on the show this week to give us an in depth discussion on how he cut the recent big budget smash hit Top Gun Maverick. by Once Upon a Timeline

50 min listen

S3E10. The Fundamental Laws of Shot Selection: One of the biggest things that gets skipped over in the early stages of the creative editing process is around selecting what will be pulled out of the raw footage for a rough cut and what will be left on the cutting room floor. by Once Upon a Timeline

33 min listen

S3E9. What Should an Editor Look at First in a Shot?: It's rare that we go back to the fundamentals of our art form. But on this week's show Paddy dispenses with complex creative theories and takes us back to that most basic of questions... what is the eye drawn to in each shot? by Once Upon a Timeline

37 min listen

S3E8. How Can We Create Value in the Mind of Our Clients?: Building a career in editing can be a tricky business. Not only do we have to master a huge range of creative skills but we also have to build a roster of clients who want to work with us repeatedly. by Once Upon a Timeline

33 min listen

S3E7. The Editor's Guide to Visual Grammar: On this week's episode of Once Upon a Timeline we're going to be discussing the essential subject of visual grammar. There's a whole bunch of rules and regulations that we must obey when cutting our sequences and knowing what they are and why they exist is a must for any pro editor. by Once Upon a Timeline

37 min listen

S3E6. The Perils of Full Disclosure: Happy new year! I hope you had a fantastic holiday break and are raring to go for 2022! We've got a great show for you this week with a few new features to talk about. by Once Upon a Timeline

37 min listen

S3E5. In Conversation With Carly Brown Part 2: From high-octane Formula One promo editing to assisting on a Keira Knightley feature film to teaching a famous film director how to use Avid during the Covid Lockdown, the hugely talented Carly Brown tells the concluding part of her inspirational story on this week's show. by Once Upon a Timeline

57 min listen

S3E4. In Conversation With Carly Brown Part 1: One of the parts of an editor's personal story that I find truly inspiring is how they've managed to rise through the ranks. We all have a unique path into our art form but listening to the struggles, sacrifices and choices that fellow artists made along the way to success is often one of the most useful and motivating things we can take on board. by Once Upon a Timeline

57 min listen

S3E3. In Defence of Jump Cuts: Jump Cuts, what a pain. They create areas we have to hide, they create continuity issues and can often ruin the fluidity of our cutting patterns. What's to love? by Once Upon a Timeline

30 min listen

S3E2. The Chameleon Effect: Working With Directors: Directors... The most important relationships we'll ever have throughout our careers. The power they wield in how successful we become is astonishing. We can be amazing creative editors but if we do not put as much care and attention into cultivating the director/editor relationship we are putting our careers and earning potential at risk. by Once Upon a Timeline

34 min listen

S3E1. Story Arcs: What Every Creative Editor Needs to Know: What is a Story Arc? Are they important? How do we build one on our timeline? Very important questions for us to ask as creative editors. But for me they only scratch the surface of the things we need to consider when crafting high end films. by Once Upon a Timeline

40 min listen

S2E17. Gear Acquisition Syndrome: The Curse of The Modern Filmmaker: GAS. Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Yeah, it's a problem and in my opinion, it is a major hindrance to filmmaking. On this week's show, I talk about when and how I first spotted this problem in the industry, its effects on filmmakers and most importantly how they can break free. by Once Upon a Timeline

32 min listen

S2E16. The 3 Most Important Words in Editing: There are three magical words in editing, especially in the non-scripted genres that every editor covets, hunts and searches for. These three words get us out of a thousand different problems and so we could say they are super words! by Once Upon a Timeline

34 min listen

S2E15. Embracing Complexity: The Essential Guide to Edit Intelligence: One of the best things any editor can do outside of learning every single area of our craft is train their mind in high levels of complexity. The ability to not only see huge amounts of variation within any set of raw footage but to plan and strategise how it should be constructed is a very well sought after skill in the creative editing world. by Once Upon a Timeline

36 min listen

S2E14. Edit ROI: Maximising Creative Investment: As shooting ratios go up and schedules get squeezed, it is vital in today’s editing world that we intelligently plan the numerous creative paths we go down. We simply cannot afford to throw our creative energy around like it’s a never-ending resource. by Once Upon a Timeline

33 min listen

S2E13. Creative Pruning: Cultivating The Garden On Our Timeline: One of the most fulfilling parts of editing is the final stage. Once we've done the heavy lifting of assembly and fine cutting the mind of the editor has to move towards the lighter touches of delicacy and perfectionism. by Once Upon a Timeline

31 min listen

S2E12. The Ruthless Art of Subtraction: A successful career in editing has many different component parts. From cultivating as many different client relationships as possible to creating a positive working environment in the edit suite. We need to nurture and craft the creative energy we put out into the industry in a very specific way so that directors want to work with us. by Once Upon a Timeline

37 min listen

S2E11. The Narrative Tuning Fork: Creating Emotional Resonance: So, what have we got on this week’s episode of Once Upon a Timeline? Well, I want to talk about a concept that I’ve been discussing in our live events for quite some time now. It’s a concept that is used in so many different genres, and to fully explain it will require us to go into the mind of the viewer. by Once Upon a Timeline

34 min listen

S2E10. Manufacturing Authenticity: There are numerous genres within our art form that require us to create a very specific feeling for our audience. This feeling is not only essential in reality TV and observational docs, but also news and many forms of drama. What is this feeling? Authenticity… by Once Upon a Timeline

30 min listen

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