There hasn’t been any shortage of articles, coverage, and content of the editing and post-production of Mission Impossible: Fallout with its editor Eddie Hamilton. At the top of that coverage would be Steve Hullfish’s fabulous ART OF THE CUT with Eddie where the detail is deep. And as a fun addendum to that AOTC Steve broke down Eddie’s MI:Fallout timeline in another post after a screengrab of that timeline made its way around the internet. So why do we need yet another post on Eddie and MI: Fallout? Well, we don’t but after scanning over Twitter this morning and seeing a lot of good info that came from Eddie’s talk at the Los Angeles Creative Pro User Group Wednesday, September 26 meeting it’s worth putting some of these tidbits of information out into the non-Twitter world for others to see.
https://twitter.com/JBowdacious/status/1045138032540536833
As always on these types of posts, a huge thank you to those who took the time out of the presentation to take the pics, and type up these gems of wisdom on what is presumably a tiny mobile device. Big thanks to Jamie Cobb and Jason Bowdach for the most detailed of tweets but thanks to all those who shared this info with those of us who couldn’t be there. Eddie is on Twitter too.
https://twitter.com/JBowdacious/status/1045149696895811584
The most challenging sequences to cut for MI are the heist set up scenes. Audience has to understand all of the rules of the heist, several details, as quickly as possible. Eddie Hamilton, ACE #LACPUG
— Jamie Cobb (Forsman) 🎞✂️🎞 (@jamiecobbeditor) September 27, 2018
During production, the most important job of the editor is to scan all dailies and flag what’s missing in the coverage. Eddie Hamilton,ACE #LACPUG
— Jamie Cobb (Forsman) 🎞✂️🎞 (@jamiecobbeditor) September 27, 2018
https://twitter.com/JBowdacious/status/1045163462177910784
Only give your opinion on the script if you’re asked for it. Eddie Hamilton, ACE #LACPUG
— Jamie Cobb (Forsman) 🎞✂️🎞 (@jamiecobbeditor) September 27, 2018
https://twitter.com/JBowdacious/status/1045170468569772032
https://twitter.com/JBowdacious/status/1045172074979909632
Eddie Hamilton watches one wide take, then cuts together the scene as quickly as possible. Then knowing the weaknesses of the scene, he watches down all of the dailies. #LACPUG
— Jamie Cobb (Forsman) 🎞✂️🎞 (@jamiecobbeditor) September 27, 2018
That is an intriguing way to work. It’s opposite of how some narrative editors work who would never dream of digging into a scene without viewing the dailies but it’s a great example of how there is no right or wrong way to do it. I’m going to try this myself.
“The key to action editing is a variety of cut lengths.” Mission Impossible: Fallout editor @eddiehamilton breaks down the films timeline at the @lacpug event tonight. pic.twitter.com/RQCOBeTpSz
— Mike Dowling (@mikejdowling) September 27, 2018
“That’s great, let’s try it.” What you think won’t work can actually work quite well. Take the 15 seconds to try an idea and then you’ll know. Eddie Hamilton, ACE #LACPUG
— Jamie Cobb (Forsman) 🎞✂️🎞 (@jamiecobbeditor) September 27, 2018
Timeline does not start that complicated, it just evolves. Eddie Hamilton on reel 1 of MI Fallout.#LACPUG pic.twitter.com/0dxyrkcmPj
— Jamie Cobb (Forsman) 🎞✂️🎞 (@jamiecobbeditor) September 27, 2018
Eddie Hamilton, ACE book recs. #LACPUG pic.twitter.com/QdlEV2CgmS
— Jamie Cobb (Forsman) 🎞✂️🎞 (@jamiecobbeditor) September 27, 2018
I don’t know if this presentation was recorded to be posted online, sometimes they are, sometimes they aren’t but if so I’;; embed it here if possible. Thanks again to all those who tweeted from the event for all of us to follow. We thank your thumbs!
And a bit of non-LACPUG viewing to finish your coffee.
https://twitter.com/dessiebien/status/1045199291902377984