ABSTRACT
Knowledge about timing, pacing, and trajectory phrasing is precisely the kind of knowledge that can support the intuition unconsciously in the edit suite. It can help sensitize a person to the flow of the movement of story, emotions, image, and sound, and give people tools that they can deploy expertly, without justifying why or how they deploy them. A world of different meanings can unfold if the woman seems to look away because the man is smiling or because the man looked up. The feeling of a shot’s duration is created by the relative durations of the shots near to it and the concentration of information, movement, and change within it. Choosing the Placement of a Shot The decision about where to use a shot is also called timing. This sense of timing refers to “where” as in when to reveal the punch line or the surprise.
