ABSTRACT
GENERAL The most common experience a director has in the editing stage is staring at the screen and wondering why he did not insist that the actors do more. There it is again-more, rather than less.
It does not matter what the writer intended or the director planned; in the editing, the editor is only dealing with what is there. The raw material he uses is no more and no less than what the camera recorded-and what the actors put into the lens.
