Wes Anderson's Editor Breaks Down His Unique Style

[@williamshakespeare9815]

Love that even his house is symmetrical behind him lol.

[@AllenRReid]

You guys are doing a great jobs of getting the big dogs on your podcast. Love the insight into their world of editing. Thank you.

[@EditingPodcast]

Our pleasure!

[@pandyssianrat]

Now we need a Paul Machliss interview! I NEED to know how he edits for Edgar Wright. Especially on Baby Driver, where everything is edited to music lol

[@theeddytor3490]

i put everything in one line (as what i think about it) wes anderson does what 90s animation artist use to do. PERSPECTIVE, SYMMETRY, ISOLATION AND FOCUS POINT. i could be wrong but i am someone who watches movies after knowing who has directed and Wes has been in my top 10 list of directors.

[@Jawnexplores]

Virginia Woolf wrote about her novel The Waves "I am writing to a rhythm, and not a plot". I feel that Wes incorporates this perspective in his filmmaking. One of the most substantial stylists of all time cinema, imo.

[@Dancing_Alone_wRentals]

Hmm, Interesting....Rhythm hits home when you think about it.

[@EditingPodcast]

Brilliant insight thanks for sharing

[@Jawnexplores]

@@EditingPodcast you're most welcome, thank you for doing what you do

[@immarcusgram]

Cool to see my shot in the opening sequence!

[@esrAsnataS]

Not sure why this ended up in my playlist but glad it did. Thought I'd maybe watch 1-2 minutes and turn it off but got to the end wanting more. What a great interview, Barney was a great interviewee.

[@MackemDaniel97]

The fact this is free 😮‍💨 Such an interesting conversation. Keep them coming!

[@user-oc6mr1jr6s]

Imagine being a director and having all theese talented people create your film.

[@RossyDourado]

Wes Anderson, has become my favourite. BIG FAN OF THIS podcast since day 1.

[@thebathuman]

Really awesome interview! Great to spend time with someone who knows Wes' work so intimately.

[@ittueaday]

One of my favorite episodes, I listened to it earlier and wow, I can't wait to translate all the aspects of timing to my own work

[@starkerrobert]

Yo what that's perfect! I just watched the four short films and ABSOLUTELY LOVED THEM!!!

[@almost_harmless]

I find some of Wes's movies pretentious, and the critics even more so, but I also value his voice and vision and believe he is truly a breath of fresh air.

[@zoned3mon838]

Thank You for this episode guys ,Much Appriciated

[@natalierushman4765]

Would love to see an episode about editing movie trailers!

[@Acsbr36]

the first time I actually tune in when ad pops up

[@hermancharlesserrano1489]

What a fab cast! The obsessive eye, the attention to rhythms, the air…lovely insights

[@rottensquid]

I'm no editor, yet I feel like, though it's not a metronome like with music, there's a common timing to thinking that's pretty universal, that editing plays with. We feel it, because we all have similar rhythms, even us neuro-divergent folk whose rhythms are just a tad different. Be we feel it when a pause is just a tad long. It feels as though there's more going on than just action/reaction. A long pause gives us room to take things in, to contemplate, to digest, rather than just react. I think that's what the term "pregnant pause" alludes to. Anderson's dragging out that scene lets us laugh at Scarlet's dramatic pose, then think, "wait, is this real? No, it's just her character acting. But is it? This is going on a while. What if..." and then she speaks. In a way, it's no different than the peeing shot in Austin Powers, that just keeps going on and on long after it's no longer funny, till the moment it's funny again because it's just so persistent, and then it cuts abruptly. I think the same is true for the abrupt cuts, that don't give us time to even react. They convey that zero thought is going into the next action, and we laugh at the universal stupidity of human nature. Again, it plays with the rhythm of thought. We don't think about thought's rhythm, but we're always subconsciously aware of it. I believe this is why editors always describe editing as an instinctual skill. It can't be learned through explanation. It has to be felt.

[@RobHope]

Incredible job on this interview guys. Thank you.

[@AnitaSleap1080z]

So amazing to have this kind of insight to iconic editing and storytelling.

[@EditingPodcast]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jimin6355]

I wish there is a version of editor breaks down wes Anderson style on ISLE OF DOGS omg

[@CianBrennan]

Marticulous

[@naszfluckah7314]

I was getting interested in the video, heard this word and did a double take, checked the dictionary to make sure I wasn't just ignorant, and then came back here to make this exact comment.

[@MightyCraicDJ]

The timings are very reminiscent of Harold Pinter's stage intructions to actors on how long pauses should be.

[@olegOG8038]

caught me off guard with that second ad break

[@Jmdeleeuw-]

I love this so much. What a fascinating podcast. Makes me really exited about filmmaking.

[@Hannas_hiatus]

Found your channel right when I’m struggling with editing my videos 😅 good stuff thank you!

[@manofocean]

fantastic listen and really insightful on many levels

[@terrahawks]

I can't believe this podcast about how editing choices can create emotional moments is literally sponsored by an app that promises a robot can pick the best clips from your podcast.

[@rolandmarckwort]

Brilliant stuff!!

[@wojciechdulnik5971]

Amazing conversation, thank you for this

[@ali-mz1p]

Bring more director in your show

[@Theeditingguy00]

Haha, the cuts at the end got a bit out of control. One cut with jacket 2 without then 5 with :p. Hayden really tried to make sense of a lot here in post. Love this podcast, would love to edit for you guys one day :)

[@jjmcgechan4202]

Key points from video. “Let there be silence” & “use sound to set the scene not a sitting track”. Ads for video. “Cut all the silence” & “use a random track to plan your edit”. 😐👍

[@jacquesbroquard]

I've worked with Creative Directors that go through my motion graphics frame-by-frame; and I've worked with Creative Directors that trust my execution. (and still go through it frame-by-frame)

[@machiel5888]

Thank you so much for this video. I love Asteroid City. I've always wondered why the three dots in the cardboard box were orange. in the screenplay, it says they're red white and blue. I'd love to ask someone about that

[@angelburgueno8545]

Got that Envato Ad with Jordan! Thought it was a sponsor segment

[@nelibeshkova]

Love it!!!! 🫶🏽

[@ukmonk]

Lots of great invisible VFX which people would never have realised.

[@AaronBowley]

i think he can say he doesnt have a style because it seems to come down to more of an OCD thing, i think he feels compelled to frame things in a certain way. i do the same thing with just the things on my desk everything has to be in its perfect place, theres a strange balance between what is and isn't there and the space that should be between objects, some person could possibly come in and say i have a style to how i arrange things in my room or home/everything but i would never say that i have a style OCD, a blessing and a curse

[@andersistbesser]

It must be very bad to be a slave to symmetry. I am the absolute opposite, i want chaos, unpredictability. Thats what makes life fun. I think people who cant stand things being not in the order they want them to be are autists, not normal. Its a harmless mental disorder i think.

[@fraxis2007]

That was absolutely fascinating. I really learnt a lot from this.

[@danielfilipepro]

great stuff

asteroid city deserves an oscar

[@cinematic_monkey]

That's why I hate those AI impressions of Wes filmmaking style. There's nothing remotely similar except maybe for some color palette used.

[@blaster-zy7xx]

They are Spotted On!! Which makes the hilarious! His style is easy to replicate. Shoot everything flat on. Make as many symmetrical shots as possible. Use a lot of pastel colors. Make the actors downplay everything to a Deadpan level. Cut the movie into a series of “panels” to make it look like a storyboard.

[@cinematic_monkey]

@@blaster-zy7xx Yeah noo. You missed the point entirely. Have you even watched the video? It's about the timing. But think all you want, if you don't see it, you probably never won't.

[@27jjkarr]

See JL David’s “Death of Marat”! WA seems to have been inspired by the mis en scene

[@lazougre4229]

bor I got the envato add with Jordan orme!

[@ChunkyLover69420]

im flirting with astroid city being wes's best

[@jaysonp9426]

You may be right. I lean towards The French Dispatch though. It's one of the only movies I've watched through with my jaw on the floor and immediately watched againm Asteroid City is incredible but for me it wasn't an enjoyable experience.

[@ShahabZargari]

The daughters were composited?! Oh wow.

[@jesaispasvraimentquoiecrireici]

22:40 He even edited out his own coat and put it again at 26:40 in the take 4 of this video. P.S.: Plot twist, even the frame of the three girls didn't exist in the original comp.

[@loganwebb5449]

No way this episode is free

[@JuNo7373]

Can someone please explain to me one thing: in more than one video (in this one too) they are against editing video to music, but they are promoting Musicbed which has purpose of providing music for editing (basically editing to music). Why are they so against it? Not everyone can pay a compositor or music producer to make music for a video.

[@EditingPodcast]

Hey Juro To clarify, Hayden considers an advanced technique is to be able to create the scene and the story without the use of a music track, and to then find a great track on licensing sites. This is to avoid having the editor edit the scene to the music and instead have the music be edited to the scene.

[@Relativizor]

The context is that if you put down music first, then edit to the music, your edits will be influenced by the mood of the music. Your cut pace, your trims, and your timing will be a reflection of your music bed. You cannot put in a temporary music bed, then edit to it and hope you can replace the bed later on, because your edits already picked up the subtle cues from the temporary bed. There are times where you want to edits to pick up the rhythm of music, and there are times where you'd like the rhythm of the dialogue to be the driver. In my opinion, the most important thing is that this is a conscious decision by the editor, not an accident.

[@absurdaryan]

Bro, they're just talking about 'priority'. Many editors give music too much priority and kinda neglect proper pacing and other things! both of them say music is super important but in the cutting stage when you're building a story avoid editing to music!

[@JuNo7373]

Thank you all for answers.

[@SimonHepworth]

Hayden is wrong by the way. If that works for him, then fine, it also works for Eddie Hamilton, but there are many, many, incredibly successful award winning editors who are quite happy using temp tracks. I’ve just cut a three part documentary series for a national broadcaster where I live and half of it I it clean and the other half I knew exactly what rhythm and pace and emotional weight I needed and what music needed to go with it. I got zero notes on my choice of music from either the producers or the commissioners. My point is, it’s not a mistake to do it whichever way works for you. If you get the cut right you can listen to it with or without a bed and it’ll still work.

[@muhammadsyukurmuslim]

Wes' style is Ctrl+E and Ctrl+J

[@mattaze9972]

40% sarcasm: saying you don't have a style is like how many US americans say they don't have an accent

[@Somefun0341]

💪💪

[@MichaelSmith-sd9kz]

"Marticulous" -- Is this A.I.?

[@TheAntibozo]

♥

[@itsROMPERS...]

I thought it was hilarious in "Asteroid" how they must have thought, "We've got Scarlett and everyone is gonna wonder if she's ever gonna be naked", so they decided, "yeah, let's just do it" as if they couldn't be bothered to even talk about it, so in the middle of a sequence she just drops her towel, and they cut away for maybe a half-second nude scene. And of course it wasn't her. So they got a completely gratuitous nude scene supposedly of the most beautiful woman in movies, check, move on. It kinda meant something, but it was kinda just something.

[@coltonjones9850]

You can and should play jazz with a metronome, kids. Don’t be fooled.

[@Owlbot]

Marticulous!? 😂

[@EditingPodcast]

😅

[@adamjohnson4311]

hahaha-the choice in pausing was EXACTLY how long a seasoned viewer would suspend their conclusion about what they're seeing-and finally decide in their minds they are witnessing a women overdosed in a tub and a man talking to her "somehow" unaware or just not caring but talking nevertheless to the dead woman-----------ONLY to be SLAMMED with the ('glove pulled off hand slowly, finger by finger) --slapped across face' how DARE we assume.. haha-touche

[@kidsonblackops]

This makes the idea of editing films a lot less intimidating.

[@riparianlife97701]

Less? Are you kidding???

[@kumoyuki]

wow. two embedded ads. just nope.

[@EarthWalkerOne]

Wes' style is just sticking to conventional filmmaking techniques. I like his films, but I tend to agree with the man when he says he doesn't have 'a style.'

[@KokoRicky]

All that work and Asteroid City was kinda meh. It was a very "and then" movie with interesting characters, and an interesting setting, but it left no real impression on me, other than it having a distinct look.

[@gregkrazanski]

he probably should have just said rhythm instead of metronome lol

[@gloom303]

"His marticulous style and technique" - his what now?

[@sebbosebbo9794]

retiming...I doesnt even know what this means..

[@Serifinity]

Style over content. His movies look like the kind of thing a film student would make as part of a school project.

[@nineteenfortyeight]

So basically Anderson does nothing, and can't even articulate what he wants done.

[@hey_maurice]

🤣💀

[@stellviahohenheim]

This is all just a waste of time

[@lxttx12]

That or he has it perfectly planned out in his head and can't get it out the way he's envisioning

[@beludobeludo]

Crazy, Movies aren’t made by just one people? Also, Who do you think is selecting the talent and production? Say the man’s job title at home and do some math to figure what he does 😂

[@aubreylavendermusic]

marticulous?

[@WatchingtheWorldBurning]

Wes Andersen thinks he doesn't have a style? Lol.

[@saganandroid4175]

There was a time when they would cast kids who could act together in realtime. None of this SFX nonsense.

[@2424rocket]

Avid.? And I bet you drive a model T. car. What’s wrong with you people… Why aren’t you using da Vinci resolve… Thousand times more powerful than Avid!

[@phpn99]

Wes Anderson is basically imitating the mood of Fellini's films and his visual style has gotten insufferably repetitive. Lame.

Overrated hipster bullshit.

[@TickleMeTimbers]

Pretty much all of wes anderson's films are utter, utter garbage. Yes, they look cool for half a second, but they are substanceless, unintertaining, yawn-worthy childish bullshit.

[@BlackReaperGames]

waaa waa waaa im a little baby waaaaahhh!!!!!!

[@TickleMeTimbers]

​@@BlackReaperGames exactly what you'd expect from a wes anderson lover