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What is "editorial geography"?

• Animats 6y ago
  There's a nice example of this in "When the Shooting Stops, the Cutting Begins", (Rosenblum, 1986.) His example goes roughly like this: Bogart is in his apartment. His phone rings. We see a shot of the phone ringing. He walks to the phone, picks it up, and talks briefly. He opens the door of his apartment and leaves. We see a shot of him in the hall. We see a shot of him going down the front steps and getting into a car. A shot of him driving the car. A shot of him parking the car in front of an apartment building, getting out, looking up at the tall building, and grimacing. A shot of him in the lobby pushing an elevator button, getting into the elevator, and of the doors closing. A shot of the elevator indicator moving upward (a cliche of the 1930s). A shot of the elevator doors opening on an upper floor, Bogart getting out of the elevator, walking to a door, and ringing the doorbell. Lauren Bacall opens the door, and he goes inside. That's editorial geography. Nobody does that any more. Today, one would cut from answering the phone to inside the destination apartment. But at one time, a film that left out too much geography would cause the audience to lose track. See this documentary on the French New Wave, which shows how that era ended.[1] [1] https://youtu.be/0R7R0JHvvgo?t=191 https://youtu.be/0R7R0JHvvgo?t=191
  • telotortium 6y ago
    Thanks!