In The Blink of An Eye: A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick

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I’ve been editing since I was 12 so it has certainly affirmed and validated for me a lot of the things I knew about editing on certain levels, but never have had explicitly stated. Murch approach is more of the zen type, teaching that editing is more like a dance, and an art, than a science, and how you can learn from that. Given everything, I had legit zero expectations reading this book, but I found myself gobbling this up like a Thanksgiving dinner. I am not responsible for the republishing of the content found on this blog on other Web sites or media without my permission. S.’s finest decades of cinema, the 1970s, Walter Murch is part psychologist philosopher and part editor in this short treatise on film editing.

It's so much more than a dystopian police procedural and asks questions about who we are and what it means to be human.

That's only when he's not nagging on about the fact that he likes to put his KEM on an elevated surface, because he prefers to edit while standing up. As more full versions are cut and screened you slowly start to see the film for what it is, removing yourself from the work.

I was also lucky enough to be selected for Val McDermid's New Blood Panel at Harrogate Crime Festival, and my book was reviewed and recommended on BBC 2's Book Club show Between the Covers. The first half is about the art of editing itself (and more old-style/analog editing), distilling several days worth of raw footage into a final product lasting only few hours. A really clever twist on the police procedural that asks big questions about instinct, bias, and what it means to be human while also delivering a cracker of a plot. Nevermind the blink of an eye, the author employs a very deft sleight of hand here, and it works perfectly. Now I don’t normally listen to the hype but the premise of the book sounded very intriguing; an Artificially Intelligent Detective Entity teaming up with a seasoned DCS to review cold cases sounds like science fiction but I’ve been to see ABBA Voyage 3 times in the past few months and seen how technology is evolving so in my mind “anything is possible”.We are told to bear in mind that seeing a film on a big screen is more immersive than seeing it on a two foot wide screen, and more detail will be seen in a big picture; at the same time, readily available screen time means that people can watch a film over and again, seeing new nuances and character aspects. Her grief is palpable, as is her guilt, and it adds an extra edge to her determination to get back to work and prove that she still has what it takes to do her role.

Lock’s superior ability to gather and analyse information is undeniable but Kat proves that empathy, discretion, and an understanding of nuance are also valuable investigative tools. Starting with some missing persons – both Kat and Lock identifying cases they believe to be solvable.Because you want to do only what is necessary to engage the imagination of the audience—suggestion is always more effective than exposition.