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  sound match, 25

  speed up, 142–143

  Spider-Man 2, 37, 85, 98, 105, 152, 181

  split screen, 103–105

  story, viii, 2, 17, 21, 25, 30, 39–41, 50, 65, 67, 109, 128, 153

  subliminal cut, 128–130

  superimposition, 81–85

  There Will Be Blood, 5, 94, 149, 181

  time cut, 17, 19, 34, 41, 43, 45, 70–77, 90, 105, 133, 136, 144

  compressing time, 19, 55, 108–113, 123

  expanding time, 117–118

  stopping time, 119–121

  subjective time, 122–124

  universal time, 131

  Underworld Evolution, 38, 181

  United, 93, 52, 166–167, 181

  War of the Worlds, 7, 115, 172–173, 182

  white frame, 79

  white out, 75–77

  wipe, 88–96

  Woodstock, 103

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  It all started in a small drive-in theatre in Santa Rosa, California to paraphrase Ted Baxter from the Mary Tyler Moore Show. The author got a job as a cashier at Starvue Motor Movies but was more interested in the projection booth. There she learned base and emulsion, cement and tape splicing, and other 35mm basics. Eventually her union brothers and the town’s theatre managers were persuaded to let her in the booth and the union. This meant she got to run Rocky, Star Wars, and Saturday Night Fever for months and take location assignments doing grip, electrical, and craft service work. Much film through projector and two BAs later, she headed for Hollywood and began slipping through studio gates.

  Her first job was as an assistant at a sound studio where she transferred 500 tiger growls from ¼” to 35mm on her first day. It was a good place to meet editors and led to her first assistant editor job on the television show That’s Incredible. From there it was a whirlwind of jobs and trips to the unemployment office.

  Gael Chandler has edited comedies, dramas, documentaries, features, corporate videos, and promos and cut on every type of medium: film, tape, and digital. Nominated twice for a Cable ACE award for editing a comedy series, she is a member of the Editors Peer Group of the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences and annually judges the Emmy and College TV awards.

  She has taught editing at Loyola Marymount University and California State Universities at Los Angeles, Long Beach, and North ridge and trained hundreds of professionals, professors, independent filmmakers, and students to operate digital editing equipment.

  The author has written a handful of feature screenplays, one of which won the Scriptwriters Networks’ Producers Outreach Program contest and may yet be coming to a theatre near you. The writing has made her a better editor and vice versa. Her first book, Cut by Cut: Editing Your Film or Video, published in 2004, details the editing process from dailies to tube, screen, DVD, or Web. Additionally, she has created numerous online courses on a variety of subjects, including editing.

  Chandler has walked the halls of Hollywood, both dark and cluttered with film reels and bright and glittering with Emmys, Clios, and Oscars, and feels dedicated to passing on her knowledge to all who seek to enter the cutting room or understand editing. She continues to live and thrive in Los Angeles. You can contact her via her website at www.joyoffilmediting.com or at [email protected].