{"id":79443,"date":"2020-10-01T14:16:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T11:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/humble-cut-editing-is-the-secret-weapon-of-visual-effects\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:16:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T11:16:56","slug":"humble-cut-editing-is-the-secret-weapon-of-visual-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/humble-cut-editing-is-the-secret-weapon-of-visual-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8221;Humble Cut&#8221; Editing is the Secret Weapon of Visual Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35fc5d3ce22\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35fc5d3ce22\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/humble-cut-editing-is-the-secret-weapon-of-visual-effects\/#Who_made_this\" >Who made this?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/humble-cut-editing-is-the-secret-weapon-of-visual-effects\/#More_Videos_Like_This\" >More Videos Like This<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#&#8221;Humble Cut&#8221; Editing is the Secret Weapon of Visual Effects<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.7--><em>Welcome to <strong>The Queue<\/strong> \u2014 your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we\u2019re watching a video that explores how editing can be used for visual effects.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>It takes a village to sell a visual effect, no matter if it\u2019s practical or computer-generated. Everything from sound design to camera movement must work in tandem to successfully pull off the trick. And the same holds true for editing. In fact, sometimes, cuts <em>are <\/em>the visual effect. Woah.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to movie magic, there is no simpler or older visual effect than the humble cut. Indeed, the technique goes as far back as film pioneer and cinematic illusionist <strong>Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s<\/strong>. Legend has it M\u00e9li\u00e8s invented the jump cut by accident thanks to an unplanned, yet fortuitous, camera jam which produced a sequence where a bus seemingly transformed into a buggy. Amazed with the startling result, M\u00e9li\u00e8s used similar cuts intentionally throughout his career \u2014 as early as 1896\u2019s <strong><em>The Haunted Castle<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013to make characters dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ear, teleport, and transform.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of haunted castles, horror is absolutely the prime beneficiary of the cut as a visual effect. A cut can reveal all manner of peripheral apparitions, confirming \u2014 to our horror \u2014 that there was, indeed, something lingering just out of sight. Cuts are also an adept way of melding full-scale sets and miniatures, blending two shots with a cut cleverly smuggled into a whip-pan. Cuts can also smooth over the seams of a progressive makeup effect, like the infamous transformation in <em><strong>An American Werewolf in London<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>where each cut stealthily reveals new bone-cracking puppetry with the audience none the wiser.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t think of a better shepherd into the world of cuts-as-effects than god-tier no-budget filmmaker <strong>David F.<\/strong> <strong>Sandberg<\/strong>. In the video below, Sandberg unpacks the VFX potential of a simple cut using both his own films and genre classics as examples.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.14285rem;\">Watch \u201c<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 1.14285rem;\">Using Cuts as a Visual Effect<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1.14285rem;\">\u201c:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Using Cuts as a Visual Effect\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/455308436?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_made_this\"><\/span>Who made this?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Writer, director, and video essayist <strong>David F. Sandberg<\/strong> (of <em>Shazam! <\/em>fame) is stuck at home and making excellent quarantine content. Including no-budget horror films in his own house, starring his wife and frequent collaborator <strong>Lotta Losten<\/strong> (<em>Lights Out, Annabelle: Creation<\/em>). 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