WALTER MURCH ON EDITING

Summarize each of the six rules of when to make a cut. Why do you think cutting on emotion and story are so much more important than the next four?

   The most important three, which are all hard to separate from each other, are emotion, story, and rhythm. In emotion, the cut must be true to the emotion we want to communicate to the viewers. It must not distract the audience. It must advance the audience forward to the emotional line we're presenting. In story, we want to make sure it advances the story forward. Rhythm does it happen at the correct moment. 

   The next three rules are less important. Eye-trace is knowing where we want our audience to look. Having a focus of attention in the frame and carried throughout the story. Two-dimensional plane of Screen means dealing with three-dimensional objects in a two-dimensional world. And finally, three-dimensional space of action is having the three-dimensional objects move incoherently.