Flow Motion Editing

The art of the cut is less of an art, more an experiment where you try to sense what feels right, where the scene will land, what it will emote. There are some tricks though, following through with motion, editing with a track that can add an energy to your edit without overpowering it or completely disrupting it. However there is a skill to editing motion - when to push forward, how to change tempo and how to capture the audience’s attention throughout the whole sequence.

This short film Enter Pyongyang is beautiful and it’s a master lesson in how to edit flow motion, slow motion and fast motion and where the edit can pivot you into a different tempo.

“Enter Pyongyang is another stunning collaboration between city-­diplomacy pioneer JT Singh and flow-motion videographer Rob Whitworth. Blending time-lapse photography, acceleration and slow motion, HD and digital animation, they have produced a cutting‐edge panorama of a city hardly known, but one emerging on the visitor’s landscape as North Korea’s opening unfolds.”