26 Editing the sound and pictures

 

Writing the script is only part of the story. Once the shots are back from location and ingested into the newsroom system they have to be edited. This is how the grammar of television news is applied. The report may also need library pictures or graphics. This section deals with editing the images and compiling the report. It deals with the most vital principles of editing rather than the technology which is updated several times a year or with the way editing is organized by a broadcaster: some have craft editors plus shoot-edit crews and/or VJs/reporter-editors or a combination of all of that. But everyone needs to know the principles in the same way as everyone needs to understand the shots. There are some ...

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