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functions which together make up the process of editing does not correspond to anything like four stages in production or even to four separate creative processes. Nevertheless, it shows how the responsibility for the larger editing issues has shifted from the editor to the writer and director, and how the new problems which have arisen since the advent of sound have remained the responsibility of the editor. A quotation from a modern shooting script, set side by side with a post-production break-down of the finished sequence, is given below. A comparision between the two columns should indicate how the responsibility for the editing has been divided between writer, director and editor in a contemporary film.
BRIGHTON ROCK1 Extract from Shooting Script and Reel 7 of the film
Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough), the leader of a gang of toughs, has been trying to kill Spicer (Wylie Watson) who possesses some incriminating evidence. Pinkie arranges to have Spicer killed by a rival gang but the arrangements go wrong and both Pinkie and Spicer are beaten up. Pinkie, however, believes that Spicer has been killed.
In the following scene Pinkie is seen talking to his lawyer Prewitt (Harcourt Williams), when Dallow (William Hartnell), a member of Pinkie's gang, enters the room.
SHOOTING SCRIPT POST-PRODUCTION SCRIPT Ft.fr.
34 M.S. The Door
It opens and Dallow comes in. Dallow :
What's up with Spicer ? We pan him across to the end of the bed bringing Pinkie into shot. Pinkie :
Colleoni's men got him. They
nearly did for me, too. Dallow : Dallow :
Did for . . . but Spicer's in Killed him ? I've just seen
his room now. I heard him. him —
35 M.C.S. Pinkie I. M.C.S. Pinkie, back to camera. 23 He turns a horrified gaze on He turns his head towards camera. Dallow and rises slowly from the Dallow : (contd.)
bed. — he's in his room.
Pinkie : Pinkie :
You're imagining things. You're imagining things,
Dallow.
36 M.C.S. Dallow
Dallow : Dallow ■:
I tell you he's in his room. I tell you I've just seen him—
NOW ! Pinkie hesitates for a moment, then walks across right. Loud, dramatic music begins.
1 Director : John Boulting. Editor : Peter Graham-Scott. Shooting script and production : Roy Boulting. Associated British Picture Corporation, 1947.
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