Editing: The Rule of Six
Posted on November 3, 2011 in Editing | 2 Comments
“The Rule of Six,” lays out a set of criteria that Oscar-winning editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient) believes should be at the top of an editors list when working.
His list is as follows (in descending order by importance):
1) Emotion
2) Story
3) Rhythm
4) Eye-trace
5) Two-dimensional plane of Screen
6) Three-dimensional space of action
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