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The 'It Ends With Us' Editor Takes Us Through Balancing The Story

One of the biggest hits of the year is the romantic film It Ends With Us. The Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively project has made all the headlines for being the movie everyone is talking about from the summer of 2024. When you see the movie, the editing perfectly blends all the different elements. The movie balances different tones, some serious scenes, and a theme, but all of it works because editor Oona Flaherty was performing the delicate balancing act. We had the pleasure of sitting down with Oona to talk about the movie and her process. Check it out below. - YouTube www.youtube.com 1. Hi Oona! It Ends With Us features several poignant flashbacks of young Lily and Atlas. Can you walk us through the editing process for these sequences?The flashbacks were such a wonderful part of the film to edit. I felt it was important to edit them in a way that felt different from the rest of the film in that they were not just flashbacks, but also memories. I wanted the scenes to evoke particular feelings that many of us can relate to, having been young people ourselves – the curiosity of teenage romance, our first kiss and first love, as well as looking in our youth for that someone or something to believe in – but in a way that evokes how memory can be selective in what or how it is remembered. On top of that we needed the scenes to give us information...

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Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 15 October

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