Journalistic Compression: The Art of Selecting Essential Sync

In this week’s show, we’re talking about compression. No, it’s not what you’re thinking. We aren’t turning our backs on the craft and diving down the rabbit hole of codecs and bit rates. I’m talking about the other type of compression you find in editing… journalistic compression.

Developing the ability to take an enormous amount of sync, stripping out 95% of it and piecing it together into a coherent narrative while still explaining all the facts is an art in itself.

In this week’s show, we talk through a technique that can help us with this difficult task that was born in ancient Greece over two thousand years ago. Aristotle’s concept of first principles.

This stacked episode also features a great Q&A section, plus a brand new competition. I hope you enjoy the show!

Aristotle’s concept of first principles

I first heard about it as a sixteen-year-old when watching Silence of the Lambs for the first time in 1991 and it’s been with me ever since.