Continuity Editing

• Tell a story (Everything must be used to tell a story)

• To construct and preserve coherence of space• To maintain continuity of time• To create and sustain graphic and rhythmic

relations• To hide the means of construction to the

viewer

Rules that need to be observed

• The 180 degree rule• Match on action • The 30 degree rule• Shot reverse shot

editing

Producer

• producers plan and coordinate various aspects of film production, such as selecting scripts, coordinating writing, directing and editing, and arranging financing.

Line Producer

• is a type of film producer that functions as the key manager during the daily operations of a feature film, television film or the episode of a TV program. A line producer works on one film at a time.

• Ted Hope was the line producer for Trust

Expansion of Producers’ roles

• Sourcing material• Talent• Money• Find distribution partners• Arrange financial structures• Initiate financial modeling and marketing

plans and to execute these with as little deviation from the original idea as possible

Independent Producer

• Ambition to take culture further• Tell different stories • Love and respect for what is being created• Understand how media is changing• The audience are now the curators,

programmers—how can this passion adapt to new situations?

Open Film Communication—The Audience has a say in:

• Which stories are told• How they are told• To whom and where they are delivered

Ted Hope

• Was interested in politics• Decided he could do more with film• Went to NYU film school• At the time he was inspired by Spike Lee and

Jim Jarmusch • Wanted to combine European filmmaking

sensibility with a punk DIY aesthetic

The Unbelievable Truth, Hal Hartley

• 40,000 to make • The single continuous take • 1989 Toronto International Film Festival • Picked up for distribution by Miramax

After that success

• He and partner James Schamus formed Good Machine Production Company in 1991• Radical films?• They wanted to reach more people

Ang Lee The Wedding Banquet 1993

Finances

• 750,000• 4 Million in Taiwan

Ang Lee

• The Wedding Banquet 1993• Sense and Sensibility 1995• The Ice Storm 1997• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000• Hulk 2003• Brokeback Mountain 2005• Life of Pie 2012

Ang Lee

• Taiwanese born, American film director • Early films explored the relationships and

conflicts between tradition and modernity, Eastern and Western.

Education

• National Taiwan University of the Arts• University of Illinois (Theater-1980)• MFA at NYU, Worked on Spike Lee’s thesis film

Wedding Banquet

• Golden Bear 43rd Berlin International Film Festival, Golden Globe and Academy Awards nods as well

• “let me take a minute to think about it”• As a producer Ted Hope learned to give Ang

Lee the time to think about things

• Not all filmmakers do things in a standard and specific way

• “I’m Ang Lee. And if I don’t make a film soon, I’m going to die.”

• Ang Lee responded to an authoritative assistant director (Pushing Hands)

• Ang helped Ted Hope learn the power of patience

• Good Machine’s commitment to Ang Lee, and their commitment to understanding his way of working, started Ang’s career and also built their production company.