Just jumping in to say this has been a very interesting discussion and I love the theological side of Star Wars, and also Joy I have been REALLY enjoying the YouTube series. It’s helping me as an editor too, appreciate the time you take to explain your mindset and ways of thinking for framing whole segments.
Thanks man, I’m so glad you find it helpful! Honestly the fact that series involves STAR WARS is incidental, the main thing I’m trying to do is teach the editing principles I learned in Film School and my Literature Degree, because I couldn’t find a good free course teaching that skill. Back in the day I learned how to use After Effects by watching Andrew Kramer’s tutorials on VideoCopilot.net, and he did a great job teaching how to think like compositor/animator. Because of that training series I was not only able to learn AE well enough to work professionally as an animator, I also learned how to well. . . learn, lol! My hope is that my series will do something similar for folks who wanna learn how to think like an editor.
I’m now working on the next episode, where we’re gonna cut 50% of Episode’s 4’s opening sequence, from the opening shot to the droids’ arrival at the Lar’s Homestead, so hopefully you’ll enjoy that one too! It might even involve some digital magic: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-1x6VCG9Drp3GiZMgKXlOllfIvOGvOVA/view?usp=sharing