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Through the last month of digital learning I have learned a lot about the painstaking process of editing. In this past month I have edited a clip of a woman fighting people in a warehouse(cutting on action), a women gearing up for battle(split cut), and the new terminator dark fate trailer. When I edited the woman fight people in a warehouse the main thing I struggle with was hiding the action. Usually in movies I like to applaud none shaky camera action such as John Wick and Mission Impossible which have some of the best filmed action scenes ever and this is due to there long takes and following action. Compare this to films like Taken and Bourne Identity. In taken there is a scene where Liam Neson jumps over a fence and instead of showing him quickly jump over the fence they use 15 different camera angles and over a dozen in takes within the span of 7 seconds. The Bourne films also suffer from the camera shaking so violently that you cant see what is going on at all. When editing this action scene I decide to go with the many cuts to hide the action because the action was so poorly done. The choreography and lead actress were great but the goons that she was beating up were putting little to no effort and it look incredible ridiculous so I had to hid it by editing a lot. This taught me about how much power an editor has. When I edited together the split cut of the woman gearing up. I tried to do an Edgar Wright style montage with quick flashily cuts this partial worked but it ended up looking very quick and less stylized than I hoped. The final thing that I edited was probably one of my favorite projects of the year and that was the terminator dark fate trailer. I am a big fan of the terminator movies especially the first two, the rest are not that good however this newest one was a nice return back to formula and was a solid action film. I remember when the trailers first came out and I thought the first two were pretty good however that movie had about 5 different trailers and showed almost the entire movie. When I did this trailer I made it two minutes long even though we only had to do one minute I want to make it good. In most trailers I am a fan of licensed music but the stock horror film music almost perfectly and a worked we with the terminator film. Most of the trailer was the same as the normal trailer but instead of having the Arnold Schwarzenegger reveal randomly in the middle killing the pace i decide to have it at the end and I edited the rest of the trailer to hid the fact that he is in it. I learned a lot about editing over the course of this class and I really enjoyed it.