Well, here we go - this blog is aimed at all film editors and those who are interested in the craft - a more public concern than it was formerly - the film editor has at last been recognised as a really valuable contributor to those films that people enjoy, love and see again. We used to be backroom people, but now are more and more thrust into the limelight. This is both a good and a bad thing, but since the advent of digital film editing things have altered. Now everything we do can be immediate, thus the directors and producers with short patience spans can be happy - since they only have to say "How about if we ..." and it's done. Before digital we would have time to make changes, and those with short attention spans were soon out of the room and back in their offices. Recutting a sequence could take days! So, today, we are quicker but not, perhaps, better than we were. Digital has produced rapidity but less thinking time - so maybe that's why movies are longer these days - that's today's beef! More later....