EDITING “ROGUE ONE”: ART OF THE CUT WITH JABEZ OLSSEN
Our good friend, guest author and customer Steve Hullfish has done an outstanding job on his latest Art of the Cut article. In this interview with Jabez Olssen,one of the editors of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, we learn about all of the complexity involved in editing and telling a block buster of a story.
Jabez Olssen is one of the editors of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story; along with John Gilroy and Colin Goudie.
Hullfish: Tell me a little bit about the schedule for Rogue One.
Olssen: I started on the film about a week before the shoot began, which was in July of 2015. We shot at Pinewood Studios in London. The shoot went to the end of 2015 and during that time editorial was also based at Pinewood, and then once we moved into post production we moved into central London, SoHo, for the cut.
Hullfish: Did you cut at a post house?
Olssen: Yeah, dry hire cutting rooms that were owned by Hireworks, the Avid rental company we used. There were other projects also editing on the same floor so, you know, we got to intermingle with other films and TV show, which is quite unusual and it meant we had to be extra careful with our security.
Hullfish: I bet. I’m surprised they had you in that environment, and not some place totally locked down.
Olssen: Of course we had many locked doors and swipe card access into every layer of the corridors.
Hullfish: So, on a film of this scale were you trying to keep up with camera or did you have so much stuff as production was happening that that was really not possible?
ART OF THE CUT WITH JABEZ OLSSEN ON EDITING “ROGUE ONE”
Jabez Olssen has had a career any editor would be envious of, from his first assistant editor gig on Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. He also edited The Lovely Bones, all three Hobbit movies and, most recently, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. And as an additional editor got to work with the legendary editor, Michael Kahn, for director Steven Spielberg, editing The Adventures of Tintin.
Jabez Olssen is one of the editors of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story; along with John Gilroy and Colin Goudie.
Hullfish: Tell me a little bit about the schedule for Rogue One.
Olssen: I started on the film about a week before the shoot began, which was in July of 2015. We shot at Pinewood Studios in London. The shoot went to the end of 2015 and during that time editorial was also based at Pinewood, and then once we moved into post production we moved into central London, SoHo, for the cut.
Hullfish: Did you cut at a post house?
Olssen: Yeah, dry hire cutting rooms that were owned by Hireworks, the Avid rental company we used. There were other projects also editing on the same floor so, you know, we got to intermingle with other films and TV show, which is quite unusual and it meant we had to be extra careful with our security.
Hullfish: I bet. I’m surprised they had you in that environment, and not some place totally locked down.
Olssen: Of course we had many locked doors and swipe card access into every layer of the corridors.
Hullfish: So, on a film of this scale were you trying to keep up with camera or did you have so much stuff as production was happening that that was really not possible?
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story..A Death Trooper..Ph: Jonathan Olley..
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