ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the way the editor partners with the director as the ultimate storytelling team. To call the editor a storyteller is cliche and blatantly obvious at an elemental level—at least to fellow editors. But many outside the profession fail to grasp how thoroughly affected the story is by the editor. With some editors, who have won the trust of their directors or even the trust of the entire producing team, they are brought on early, and their advice is sought even before the movie is shot. Virtually everything that the editor does should enhance and progress the story. And the script in many cases is only a general blueprint for what the director and editor end up doing with the story and the structure of the story. These changes have an even more profound effect on the story.
