Jump-Cut ─ How to Jump-Start Your Career as a Film Editor

In this book, the follow-up to the authors’ acclaimed Make the Cut, leading film/TV editors and industry veterans Lori Jane Coleman and Diana Friedberg offer editing techniques, insider tips, and unwritten rules that contribute to making a great production, providing editors with the tools needed to advance to the next stage of their editing careers. Using a mix of practical techniques and career-focused advice, Coleman and Friedberg cover best practices in cutting dramatic motion pictures, episodic television, documentaries and reality TV, taking into account music, sound effects, and dialogue. The book is rounded out by interviews with thirty leading Hollywood editors, who share their years of experience and unique paths through the industry.

Lori Jane Coleman, A.C.E. began her career assisting on films such as Fun with Dick and Jane, Which Way Is Up? and Up in Smoke. She has won two Eddie Awards from A.C.E. for The Deliberate Stranger and Chicago Hope - the Pilot, and has one Emmy nomination. She worked as Assistant Editor at American International Pictures (A.I.P) in 1973 and joined the Film Editors Guild in 1974. She has worked as an editor on a range of feature films and shows including Dawson's Creek, The Practice, and The Shield.

Diana Friedberg, A.C.E. was born in South Africa and began her film career after graduating with a degree in drama from the University of Cape Town in 1967. She has the distinction of being the first women to direct a feature film in South Africa. She has edited and produced feature films, educational films for companies such as Disney and National Geographic, and many groundbreaking shows for cable. Her latest contribution to the film world has been a five-part documentary series entitled World on a String, for which she has traveled to some of the remotest parts of the planet in over 50 countries to realize her dream of telling the amazing anthropological story of role of beads in society over the period of 100,000 years. The series has already garnered worldwide recognition and won 30 awards.