HUGO CABRET (2011)

Thelma Schoonmaker

I'll openly admit that I've been a sucker for the films of Martin Scorsese for a long time. "Casino" is hands-down my favorite movie. During the last few years I've come to realize that a major reason for this (especially in the case of "Casino") seems to be his go-to editor Thelma Schoonmaker. She has edited all of Scorseses movies since the late 60s,  won an Oscar for "Raging Bull" (edited on film) and switched to editing on a computer in 1995 for "Casino" using the Lightworks system (and sticking to it) and she recieved two more Oscars for "Aviator" and "Deaparted".

Since 2010 Editshare has turned Lightworks into an open system with a free version available to everybody. I'm only mentioning this  because their website was nice enough to use screenshots of "Hugo Cabret" in their ads, providing the editing community with 15(!) screenshots of various workspaces from Thelma Schoonmaker's edit.
A grain of salt though: This is advertising material. So some of the screenshots serve more to advertise the features of said NLE then to give an insight into the creatvie decisions that shaped the film.
Okay two grains: I had to upload the screenshots myself since Ligtworks has since removed them from their site. You're welcome. If you are Editshare and object to this, please contact me before sueing.

FOOTNOTE:
I said, I was only mentioning Lightworks because of the screenshots but actually I'm quite hyped to be able to edit on the same system that Schoonmaker is crafting my favorite films. As soon as the Mac-version will go public in about a month. I don't get paid by Lightworks for saying so , though.


Here are the screens in no particular order:

GRAVITY (2013)

So this is what an OSCAR-winning Timeline looks like:

Gravity - edited by Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger

I have to admit that most of this film's editing actually disappears behind the special effects since the entire opening sequence of Gravity plays as one continuous shot. Obviously - nowadays - one shot doesn't necessarily mean that there's no cutting involved.

Introduction

Hi!

If you know what an NLE is, that it has a feature called a Timeline and you've always wondered what the timelines of big productions both of Hollywood films and of TV-shows look like then you're in the right place.

If not - stay anyhow - you might find something of interest.

The point of this blog is to collects screenshots of various timelines from big Hollywood-blockbusters to independent documentaries. And since there doesn't seem to be one place on the web where you can hunt these screenshots down (I'll admit, that the audience for these might be rather limited), I thought, I'd create one.

I myself have been an editor in the TV-business for four years and now I'm working for a company producing Imagefilms out of Germany. So from time to time I'll be posting something interesting I've produced myself. Please bear with me anyhow.

Feel free to point me to any screenshots I haven't come across yet.

Enjoy!