Lindsey Woodward had to overcome numerous obstacles before she became a successful editor. This post was written by Caspar Salmon and originally appeared on Adobe blog on Oct. 15, 2021, and theguardian.com as part of the Adobe and Guardian Labs Create Change campaign. Here, she discusses her approach to the craft—and why hiring talent from diverse backgrounds is so important for the industry. Hailing from the town of Ilkeston in Derbyshire, where her mother worked in a hospital and her father was a mechanic, Woodward was “one of the very few people” in her family to go to university. During photography and video coursework, she found herself drawn to editing. “It was only when I got into the editing suite that I really had fun and enjoyed myself,” she says, recalling working with Adobe Premiere Pro to assemble the rushes from short film projects. “I didn’t know how it all worked, but I was getting in early and the days were flying by.” Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 21 October, 2021