Emotion Manipulator / Narrative Architect (read: video editor)
View the cut →I take raw footage and build it into a story — selection, performance, structure, rhythm, and pacing — through to picture lock. That narrative architecture is the foundation every finished film is built upon, whether it's a 15-second cutdown or a short film.
From there, the picture lock is handed off to dedicated specialists for finishing. I work closely with them throughout, but I keep my lane deliberately exclusive to offline editing so the one thing I do, I do properly.
Where I sit in the pipeline
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Not part of this service: color grading, online conform / VFX, motion graphics, and sound design or mix. Those go to dedicated colorists, online artists and sound designers — I collaborate closely with them, but I don't deliver those disciplines myself.
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Before the story takes shape, the footage needs order — logging, syncing, and selects that surface the best material so nothing worth using gets lost.
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Close, iterative collaboration to keep the edit aligned with the brief and the vision.
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Finding the shape of the story, setting the rhythm, and carrying it through assembly and revisions to a locked cut.
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One shoot, many deliverables — TVC masters, cut down and reframed for digital and social formats.
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