My new book, THE LEAN FORWARD MOMENT, can help every member of a media making team (from writers to producers, directors, cinematographers, production designers, editors, composers, sound designers and more) tell their stories more effectively. It uses a method that I’ve been teaching — and using — for years in which you can identify important beats within a scene and then shape the filmmaking in order to help the audience to better understand what it is that you’re trying to say
He is a long-time film, television and music editor (HEATHERS, THE COTTON CLUB, SOPHIE’S CHOICE, Oliver Stone’s WILD PALMS), and is Associate Professor and Head of the Editing Track at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. He is an author of nearly 100 articles and his internationally translated book, THE FILM EDITING ROOM HANDBOOK, has just been published in a fourth edition. His previous book, THE LEAN FORWARD MOMENT, also from Peachpit Press/Pearson, has been attracting great reviews worldwide.
He has taught worldwide, including several workshops for the Royal Film Commission in Jordan. He has taught at the Sundance Film Festival, and consults and speaks at major corporations such as Dreamworks Pictures, Pixar Animation, Forbes and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has worked as an expert witness in legal cases involving the aesthetics or history of editing, and is partner in an Internet development firm. He presently editing two documentaries.
He can be reached at norman@normanhollyn.com.
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