Ferne Pearlstein is a documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and editor based in New York City. Pearlstein is currently producing, shooting and editing a feature-length film about the relationship between Japan and the West viewed through the prism of sumo wrestling. Instructor Jesung Park is a graduate of Columbia University with a BA in Visual Arts. His studies focused in photography, digital arts, interactive design and animation.
Editors are storytellers.
They manipulate the images and sounds of a film in subtle yet important ways, affecting the story with every cut. This lesson addresses storytelling styles in a digital world through jump cuts, L-cuts, match cuts, cutaways, dissolves, split edits and more. Consumer and pro NLE systems are looked at. Rhythm is discussed. The importance of sound is also covered.