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La Dolce Vita: Marketing the Sweet Life as a Still Life

[youtube=www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YZjAn0GZfE] Film scholars date the contemporary period of trailermaking to the early 1960s’, pointing to such bold and formula rejecting previews as Dr Strangelove and The Night of the Iguana (both 1963) as avatars of the new approach. But the … Continue reading

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Trailer Editing: A lot like feature film editing, only more so

[youtube=www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPdFDfQyi_c] With the exception of the “Grid,” described below, which is exclusive to trailer editing, the approaches, techniques or principles described below are used by feature film editors and trailers editors alike. In this post, I wanted to highlight some … Continue reading

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