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NAME: Mindy Elliott
TITLE: Assistant editor
SELECTED CREDITS: Nebraska (2013); Girls (4 episodes, 2012); The Descendants (2011); Ugly Betty (5 episodes, 2009–10)

Editorial is one of the most important departments on a movie project; as veteran assistant editor Mindy Elliott points out, it’s the department that serves as the “caretaker of everybody else’s work.” Management of editorial workflow, then, is of the utmost importance. Elliott describes this process in a video interview available only in the Chapter 11 Video Activity.

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Discover:

  • image What the editorial workflow entails and why it’s necessary
  • image How the workflow on Nebraska enhanced the movie’s production
  • image Why organization can allow for more experimentation