Analysis of Particular Videos:
The Dream Is Collapsing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_HcQjQ98yc&feature=plcp
- he uses high definition video samples; it definitely has more of an effect than low-def video (see his earlier videos on his other youtube account)
- the action on screen corresponds to the intensity of the music: the beginning of the music isn't violent, and the video isn't violent either; the video becomes more violent as the music becomes more violent.
- cut on major beats of music
- synchronize the action of the scene to the music (amazing example: the twinky sorting)
- cut between a slower zoom-in shot and other shots to heighten tension
- Lyons said some of his favorite editors are Sally Menke (Tarentino's editor), Thelma Schoonmaker (Martin Scorsese's editor), and Jay Rabinowitz (editor for Requiem for a Dream)
Synchronized Presidential Debating
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfd5g8Y_ ... r_embedded