Film Editing

What does a film editor do?

• shoots footage for a film

• raises money to produce a film

• pieces together the footage into a finished film

• directs the production of a film

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CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.7

"The Film Editor" is what type of genre?

• Historical Fiction

• Narrative Fiction

• Non-Fiction

• Free Verse Poem

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.10

A film editor can spend an entire day working on just twenty to thirty seconds of a film.

What can be concluded from this information?

• editing a film is simple

• editing a film is a quick process

• editing a film requires a lot of patience

• editing a film can be boring

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

Why is the job of an editor important to the success of a film?

• The editor pieces together the directors footage into a story.

• The editor has the final say in what the movie will look like

• The editor can make the movie stars look bad if he wants to

• The editor is the person who helps the director gather footage

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CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.7

What is the passage mostly about?

• the job of a film director

• all of the steps it takes to make a movie

• the importance of a film director

• the way to get into the film business

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Which is a metaphor?

• Comparing two things using like or as

• words or phrases that repeat consonants at the start

• a wild exaggeration

• Comparing two things not using like or as

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Marc Rodriguez uses a metaphor to compare editing a film to something else. What does he compare it to?

• piloting a large plane with many passengers

• writing a novel in a different language

• making a map of an unexplored country where he has never been before

• putting together a giant puzzle in which most of the pieces don't fit

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Fill in the blank.

______ a film editor begins his work, a director will shoot hundreds of hours of footage.

• Finally

• Before

• After

• However

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CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.6.5

What is the director's job?

• to gather all the footage

• make sure the actors are getting along

• neither a or b

• both a& b