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1 STUDIO EXILES
Are we writing for cinema,
or a notion of cinema?
2 JUMP
The Kuleshov Effect, and how the cut tells the story
3 MAGIC
George Méliès gives us some
abracadabra
4 THREE AXES
Suggestion, puzzle, and kinesis -
three kinds of juxtaposition
5 SUGGESTION
A lyrical kind of juxtaposition
6 PUZZLE
We can remove or reorder the
jigsaw pieces
7 KINESIS
Slicing and dicing time to put
movement into our story
8 CITY OF GOD
A case study
9 Torpedo Boat
The story so far - to cut
or not to cut
10 THE LIE DETECTOR
The dark side - how editing
reveals and fixes flaws
11 WRITING IN THE CUTTING ROOM
Mashup, remix, and previsualisation
12 HATCHING THE STORY
Writing with text, images
and sounds
13 ART OF THE MAGPIE
How to make a sizzler
14 WAY STATION
Nearly a conclusion
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