Video Analysis: Lessons from Professional Video Editing Practice

In this paper we join a growing body of studies that learn from vernacular video analysts quite what video analysis as an intelligible course of action might be. Rather than pursuing epistemic questions regarding video as a number of other studies of video analysis have done, our concern here is wit...

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Main Authors: Eric Laurier, Ignaz Strebel, Barry Brown
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Language:deu
Published: FQS 2008-09-01
Series:Forum: Qualitative Social Research
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Online Access:http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1168
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description In this paper we join a growing body of studies that learn from vernacular video analysts quite what video analysis as an intelligible course of action might be. Rather than pursuing epistemic questions regarding video as a number of other studies of video analysis have done, our concern here is with the crafts of producing the filmic. As such we examine how audio and video clips are indexed and brought to hand during the logging process, how a first assembly of the film is built at the editing bench and how logics of shot sequencing relate to wider concerns of plotting, genre and so on. In its conclusion we make a number of suggestions about the future directions of studying video and film editors at work. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0803378
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spelling doaj.art-9209f92ef3724809952714535f57f7602022-12-21T23:15:15ZdeuFQSForum: Qualitative Social Research1438-56272008-09-01931129Video Analysis: Lessons from Professional Video Editing PracticeEric Laurier0Ignaz Strebel1Barry Brown2University of EdinburghUniversity of EdinburghUniversity of California, San DiegoIn this paper we join a growing body of studies that learn from vernacular video analysts quite what video analysis as an intelligible course of action might be. Rather than pursuing epistemic questions regarding video as a number of other studies of video analysis have done, our concern here is with the crafts of producing the filmic. As such we examine how audio and video clips are indexed and brought to hand during the logging process, how a first assembly of the film is built at the editing bench and how logics of shot sequencing relate to wider concerns of plotting, genre and so on. In its conclusion we make a number of suggestions about the future directions of studying video and film editors at work. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0803378http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1168film editingconversation analysisvideo analysisWalter MurchCold Mountain
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Video Analysis: Lessons from Professional Video Editing Practice
Forum: Qualitative Social Research
film editing
conversation analysis
video analysis
Walter Murch
Cold Mountain
title Video Analysis: Lessons from Professional Video Editing Practice
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conversation analysis
video analysis
Walter Murch
Cold Mountain
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