Walter Murch

           


          Walter Murch was a very well known editor of picture and sound having academy awards as well as an oscar. In class we learned his rule Six which is what an ideal cut would include to him. Through watching things he had been sound editor on like The Conversation and The Godfather we got an idea of his sound design concept. Murch's rule of six for editing picture consisted of:


1. Emotion - How will this cut affect the audience emotionally at this particular moment in the film? 2. Story - Does the edit move the story forward in a meaningful way?
3. Rhythm - Is the cut at a point that makes rhythmic sense?
4. Eye Trace - How does the cut affect the location and movement of the audience's focus in that particular film?
5. Two Dimensional Place of Screen - Is the axis followed properly?
6. Three Dimensional Space - Is the cut true to established physical and spacial relationships?

  

I try to follow these while editing Leverage and now my spoof trailer . The spoof trailer is obviously more important to get the right emotion across because the genre of the story is being altered. For the spoof trailer the first four rules came in to play much more than the last two mostly because its not conversational. 

After watching interviews with Murch and having watched The Conversation in class, he talks about how he liked to make sounds that echo and how he wants you to really connect those sounds to where you are in the film. Thinking back to the scene in the bathroom when the main character is putting a listening device in the wall everything echoed. Which is indicative to being in a bathroom with the tile floors. Sound is incredibly important to a film it can convey a great deal about a scene.