Andy Netly - Editor

During the afternoon Firday 10^th Oct Andy Netly came into our lecture for us to ask him some questions. Beforehand we watched an episode of the ‘Amazon’ from BBC2 that he had worked on. When he came in we asked him various questions about editing, some to do with the technical side and later more in the way of how to make your way to becoming an editor. He mentioned about how an editor needs to have a good musical knowledge and/ or library and an appreciation of how to tell a story instead of just following a script. He mentioned about how with the episode of ‘Amazon’ that he had worked on he had been given very little footage to use due to technicalities in the field with illness. This seemed to have left him with less creative play than if he had been given more. He also mentioned that since the move to digital it has become easier to do the job but a lot more time intensive as people will normally bring many times more footage to be edited than is actually needed.