I was once told by a professor that the editor should be thought of as \u201cthe keeper of genre, the master of human experience.\u201d\u00a0 Using emotion and empathy as his\/her guiding tool, an editor must make certain artistic choices to deliver a story that is- despite its degrees of originality and uniqueness- powerful enough to transcend time and space into something familiar and relevant to every audience member around the world…Is that not somewhat the goal of the ethnographer as well?<\/p>\n
Since I don\u2019t stop talking about film and film education, I wanted to think about how <\/i>these skills are learned- particularly on a global scale: How are mediamakers taught to appeal to a \u201cworldwide\u201d audience? How is such a large mission distilled into the smallest, most technical choices, like where to cut, which shots to use, and how to use sound? How does one learn to be \u201cthe master of human experience\u201d…and when do you know that you\u2019ve become one? I guess I\u2019m also wondering how this translates to ethnography (and ethnographic film). When we tell stories of distant worlds, how can we tell them in a way that is comprehensible to the widest audience possible?<\/p>\n
Watching Prof. Himpele navigate his timeline with impressive ease as he explained to us his editing choices made me wonder where exactly this knowledge and this instinct comes from and if- as the mediamakers and anthropologists of our generation- there are concrete steps we can take to become \u201cmasters of human experience\u201d and to thus make our work more accessible\u2026or would that require us to change the \u201crules\u201d of the discipline or to stray away from our \u201cscientific\u201d origins? Does \u201cobjective\u201d = accessible or accurate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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