‘The first cut is the deepest’: excerpts from a focus group on editing music videos, with explanatory historical and theoretical notes

Caston, Emily ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8618-5648 (2017) ‘The first cut is the deepest’: excerpts from a focus group on editing music videos, with explanatory historical and theoretical notes. Music Sound and the Moving Image, II (I).

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Abstract

From a film-making perspective music video is arguably foremost an editor’s medium. Yet the development and diversity of the editor’s craft has been obscured in academic discourse by reductive arguments about the impact of MTV (chiefly about pace). This excerpt from our research focus group on editing demonstrates that a more nuanced thesis about the influence, exchange and refinement of creative practices, the relationship of editing styles to genres, the impact of changes in editing technology, and the political economy of the music video industry is needed. The editors who participated in the focus group were Tony Kearns, Tom Lindsay, Art Jones, Dawn Shadforth, Julia Knight and Adam Dunlop.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Project title: Fifty Years of British Music Video
Subjects: Film and television
Media
Music
Depositing User: Emily Caston
Date Deposited: 08 Mar 2018 13:58
Last Modified: 06 Feb 2024 15:56
URI: https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/4706

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