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person editor ◆ established

Margaret Sixel

also: Margaret Sixel ACE

ustralian film editor known especially for shaping George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road into a model of hyper-kinetic yet unusually legible action cinema. Sixel’s editing demonstrates that speed does not require confusion when eye trace, horizon placement, and spatial orientation are rigorously controlled.

notes

Fury Road shut down a lot of lazy arguments about action editing. Fast is not the problem. Illegible is the problem.

aesthetic tags

Kinetic

related · 6

Character-Anchored Action Coverage Strategy Cutting on Action Eye Trace Mad Max: Fury Road Staccato Editing

references

  1. Analysis quoting Walter Murch On Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
    "My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame."
  2. Margaret Sixel Interviews on editing Fury Road (2015)