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Show Point of View through Editing?

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NAME: William Goldenberg
TITLE: Editor
SELECTED CREDITS: The Imitation Game (2014); Argo (2012); Zero Dark Thirty (coeditor, 2012); Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011); Pleasantville (1998); Heat (1995)

Earlier in this chapter, editor William Goldenberg discussed a pivotal decision-making scene acted out by Ben Affleck in his 2012 drama Argo. The scene works because the filmmaking conveys this character’s point of view—a crucial component of storytelling. Goldenberg talks more about how he uses editing to show what’s “going on in [a] character’s mind and heart” in a video interview available only in the Chapter 12 Video Activity.

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