Reel Busy Editing

We finish off the merging of the two Matrix sequels by showing how to keep the tension up during the final battle. That's it. That's all I need to say here. This video is not intended to sway anyone away from enjoying the movie shown in the video. If you like a movie as it is, enjoy it, no matter what anyone says. It's only entertainment, after all, and valid criticism helps us to learn and grow. :)

We continue with our merging of two sequels into one by focusing on the bloat present in the Merovingian scene as well as the unneeded 'Neo coma' subplot that takes up the first half-hour of The Matrix Revolutions. We're still cutting the bloat, and the overall pacing of the single sequel will be all the better for it. This video is not intended to sway anyone away from enjoying the movie shown in the video. If you like a movie as it is, enjoy it, no matter what anyone says. It's only entertainment, after all, and valid criticism helps us to learn and grow. :)

So, I was watching the two sequels to The Matrix, and I decided to take on the challenge of cutting all the bloat and seeing if the two films could be fitted into a single film with a runtime that would be fine for a theatrical release. The good news is that it can be done, and this three-part video series will go over how it's possible. This video is not intended to sway anyone away from enjoying the movie shown in the video. If you like a movie as it is, enjoy it, no matter what anyone says. It's only entertainment, after all, and valid criticism helps us to learn and grow. :)

I wanted to do a quick video on how subtracting a couple of unneeded elements can actually add to the emotion of a specific scene as well as the ending of the film. This video is not intended to sway anyone away from enjoying the movie shown in the video. If you like a movie as it is, enjoy it, no matter what anyone says. It's only entertainment, after all, and valid criticism helps us to learn and grow. :)

This is a quick video showing how a few small edits can make a big difference in a single scene from the 1995 film Mortal Kombat. This video is not intended to sway anyone away from enjoying the movie shown in the video. If you like a movie as it is, enjoy it, no matter what anyone says. It's only entertainment, after all, and valid criticism helps us to learn and grow. :)

Just very quickly, I want to show how even two lines of dialogue can affect the way we look at a character. In this video, I'm using Batman as an example and removing a couple of lines that make him seem a bit less like Batman, in my eyes anyway. This video is not intended to sway anyone away from enjoying the movie shown in the video. If you like a movie as it is, enjoy it, no matter what anyone says. It's only entertainment, after all, and valid criticism helps us to learn and grow. :)

Kylo Ren should've gone down in cinema history as one of the great Star Wars villains. Instead, the theatrical version of The Force Awakens paints him as a big baby who always loses to Rey, except that one time when the plot needs him to capture Rey. In this video, we'll remove the "big baby" stuff, so we can see Kylo as a more mature villain. If you want to see Kylo not lose to Rey when using the Force, check out my Taking the Mary Sue Out of Rey Part 2 video: https://rumble.com/vvft6i-star-wars-the-force-awakens-and-editing-taking-the-mary-sue-out-of-rey-part.html This video is not intended to sway anyone away from enjoying the movie shown in the video. If you like a movie as it is, enjoy it, no matter what anyone says. It's only entertainment, after all, and valid criticism helps us to learn and grow. :)

It's a tragedy how badly Finn's character was used in the Sequel Trilogy, so we're going to alter The Force Awakens a bit to show what Finn would've looked like had his character been handled with more care. Let this be a lesson to you, young writers. And... Taking the Mary Sue Out of Rey Part 1: https://rumble.com/vves2o-star-wars-the-force-awakens-and-editing-taking-the-mary-sue-out-of-rey-part.html This video is not intended to sway anyone away from enjoying the movie shown in the video. If you like a movie as it is, enjoy it, no matter what anyone says. It's only entertainment, after all, and valid criticism helps us to learn and grow. :)

Ever wonder how the presence of a good piece of music can heighten the emotion in a scene? Well, let's look at a scene without music then add music to it to see the importance of a solid score.

We're doing another round of showing versus telling, but now with 100% less Saw Guerrera and mind-sucking monsters. We're also starting what will probably end up being a one-man campaign for #ReleaseTheEdwardsCut, and I just had to sneak in a small love note to George Lucas because... well, you know what day this video was uploaded. MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU!!!! This video is not intended to sway anyone away from enjoying the movie shown in the video. If you like a movie as it is, enjoy it, no matter what anyone says. It's only entertainment, after all, and valid criticism helps us to learn and grow. :)

One of the great things about editing is finding different ways to accomplish the same task and deciding, among these options, which is the more effective approach. I'm going to show this with Rogue One. In my previous video, I cut the opening scene and kept Jyn's dream sequence. But what if we did the opposite and kept the opening scene while cutting the dream sequence? Part of the magic of editing is that the 'What if' in your mind can become a reality.

"Show, don't tell" isn't always the best rule to write or edit by. Sometimes, it's good to show, while other times, it's better to tell. In this video, we're using scenes from Rogue One as examples of when to show and when to tell. Also, I'll show how to introduce characters more naturally into a story as it flows. Plus, I felt that the choppy opening of the film, as well as Saw Guerrera, could use a bit of editing magic in this first of a two-part series covering Rogue One. This video is not intended to sway anyone away from enjoying the movie shown in the video. If you like a movie as it is, enjoy it, no matter what anyone says. It's only entertainment, after all, and valid criticism helps us to learn and grow. :)

Here it is! This is the final video in the Taking the Mary Sue Out of Rey series. I hope you enjoyed this small journey with me, and I hope you join me for more videos to come! Also, this video is not intended to sway anyone away from enjoying the movie shown in the video. If you like a movie as it is, enjoy it, no matter what anyone says. It's only entertainment, after all, and valid criticism helps us to learn and grow. :)

Impression and Flow are two important aspects of writing and editing, and in this video, we're using Michael Bay's 2007 film Transformers to show, through simple editing, how to catch and repair errors in these areas of storytelling. By the way, this video is not intended to sway anyone away from enjoying the movie shown in the video. If you like a movie as it is, enjoy it, no matter what anyone says. It's only entertainment, after all, and valid criticism helps us to learn and grow. :)

Yes, we're still taking the Mary Sue out of Rey, but for anyone who wants to see Kylo Ren as a less childish, more Darth Vader-like villain, this video is for you. Strong villains make stronger heroes, and this is how we'll make Rey stronger (in Part 3) without crossing into Mary Sue territory. Also, this video is not intended to sway anyone away from enjoying the movie shown in the video. If you like a movie as it is, enjoy it, no matter what anyone says. It's only entertainment, after all, and valid criticism helps us to learn and grow. :)

To explore the idea that the editor is a storyteller, here is a glimpse of what Rey would be like if not a Mary Sue. Also included is a brief bit on Poe as a Gary Stu and, going slightly off-topic from the video title, a look at Finn not portrayed as comic relief. This video is not intended to sway anyone away from enjoying the movie shown in the video. If you like a movie as it is, enjoy it, no matter what anyone says. It's only entertainment, after all, and valid criticism helps us to learn and grow. :)

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the 2009 sequel to Michael Bay's 2007 Transformers film, has a lot -- I mean, a lot -- of bad humor, and if we remove that bad humor, we can keep the writing and editing from tripping over itself. We can vastly improve the flow and pacing of this movie with that one simple step. By the way, this video is not intended to sway anyone away from enjoying the movie shown in the video. If you like a movie as it is, enjoy it, no matter what anyone says. It's only entertainment, after all, and valid criticism helps us to learn and grow. :)

Occasionally, I wonder what a certain moment in a movie would sound like with an alternate music choice. Would it sound better? Would the scene be improved? Well, let's take a scene from a movie, do a comparison, and find out. :)