A Movie Won't Feel Right Without These Two Things - Lucas Harger

In this Film Courage video interview, we ask Lucas Harger is take on what makes a movie feel compelling from an editor's viewpoint.
Lucas Harger is an acclaimed film and commercial editor, supervising editor, and partner at Bruton Stroube Outpost. Interspersed between long-form editing, Lucas cuts broadcast and web commercials for nationally recognized clients such as but not limited to: Nike, Enterprise, Anheuser-Busch, Uber, Amazon, Apple & Disney+. Priding himself on being a key collaborator across diverse project categories, Lucas brings passion and creativity to every venture. Building timelines and teams are his passion.
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[@filmcourage]

What do you think of Lucas' perspective?

[@Technoanima]

Yes. This is why movie scripts need to be one sentence statements. It helps everyone understand and maintain tone and the flow

[@tomlewis4748]

It's almost heartwarming to hear that he thinks like this. Speaking as a novelist, his artistic approach is very much the same as mine. Me learning the editing process was a suite of skills that I was working hard on even before I was working all that hard on the collaborative suite of skills necessary for drafting. To me, editing is a very strong and necessary part of writing prose. Order, structure, and formatting goals are very similar in both mediums. For instance, 'frame trims' are alive and well in writing novels.
Also, like film editing, it's not simply a linear process. It takes pass after pass, using what you learn in one pass about the story and the characters to help shape each successive pass.
Viewers and readers are looking for the same thing. They want to feel things. They want to see things happen and see characters interact. They want to feel curiosity and wonder, so that they can engage their own active thinking in the storytelling. They also want tone and pace, and they also want something new or different to happen, some small change of focus at a minimum, to happen approximately every 25 seconds (which fits directly into short-term memory, which is how everyone navigates the world around them).
When I write, I'm trying to paint a picture in the reader's mind. And I want it to be a moving picture. So my approach to writing prose is actually very cinematic, and I think this makes a significant positive difference compared to not doing things from this mindset.
I have to collaborate as well. My conscious mind and my unconscious mind need to be collaborators. I need to create story events and characters from my unconscious mind, much of what originates from feeling, during the drafting process, and then I need to format what I have for the reader, and for what they expect and what will make them happy, during the revision and editing process, much of which originates from making conscious artistic decisions with their experience in mind.

[@Zenas521]

Three Take away:
1) A Movie Won't Feel Right Without the right tone and pacing/rhythm.
2) A director that can give notes on the emotion of a seen is valuable to the editor.
3) The objective nature of documentaries makes the editing process freeing over the subjective nature of a scripted movie.
Thank You Mr. Harger

[@sAv_Doll]

Always good to hear from editor😊

[@johnclay7644]

informative interview from a editor's POV.

[@filmcourage]

Thanks John! Lucas is great!

[@marcdoherty5300]

Great to hear from an editors perspective which is underappreciated piece of film puzzle

[@filmcourage]

This is a strong interview. We look forward to sharing more.

[@Blackmuseops]

Sounds like it. Can't wait ​@@filmcourage

[@inToddWeTrust]

I like the part he said you always feel like your fighting against “SOMETHING” (So True)

[@KayFlowidity]

00:45 Tone & Rhythm
2:05 Emotions & Feelings
3:10 👌👌👌
6:15 Great Question 🎯🏆

[@Editor_N_Chief]

Nice. I think you guys should do more interviews with crew members (cinematographers, production designers, make-up/special effects); they seem especially insightful.
As always, thank you for sharing (:

[@Neomatrixology]

The Architect scene lol for real?
If y'all missed me, you can just say you miss me, the DMs open 😎

[@joshuamejia2496]

What does "in doc" mean?

[@geoffhoutman1557]

Documentaries

[@Time_and_Chance]

Psychology 101