Think about storytellers you’ve experienced. It’s not the story they tell. It’s HOW they tell the story. Editors are the how in storytelling.

Maybe once producing editors get the credit and creative power they’ve earned and justly deserve, we can finally turn on the boob tube and actually enjoy what’s been edited

There is absolutely no way this could have been written and then edited. All of the nuances, the expressions, the moments were built. The sound design had to be constructed by the editor. The pacing, the characters, the tension, the humor.

The second version was completely re-done by myself with no writer except for the voice over, and no producer except for very minor revision notes in the fine cut. The network had ZERO notes.

If we can be honest, modern producing editors are self-sufficient story-tellers who only need one supervisor to keep them all on track, to write narration, and to deal with the political mechanics of television production. We can do the rest. We DO do the rest already, but just don’t get any credit for it.

This is the new cost savings, ratings raising, time saving structure of post production using SPE editors.

Today, many television companies retain the old hierarchy of linear post production, and endure the high cost, inefficient procedures, and limited creativity that results from a “hands-off” editing approach.