KELLEY DIXON - Editor

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, editor Kelley Dixon (OBI-WAN KENOBI, THE GOLDFINCH, BREAKING BAD) joins us for a conversation about all things editing. Kelley starts by sharing her experience working in the MGM/UA mailroom and delivering script pages to the editorial department where she quickly found herself helping cut scenes. Kelley later describes learning the potential applications of visual effects if money is no object and how that insight expanded her way of thinking when approaching editorial problems on projects with relatively larger budgets. We discuss how editing can be used to bring the audience into the state-of-mind of a character and how Kelley works with a director to realize their vision in the edit. Throughout the episode, we debate whether or not editing is an invisible art, and we contemplate our favourite note: “Can you just make it better?”

This episode is sponsored by Fiilex
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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deakin's podcast.
0:08.0	A collection of informal conversations between Roger and James Deakin's and Aghast.
0:14.0	We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes.
0:22.1	This episode is sponsored by Phylix, a California-based lighting company with close to 40 years
0:27.8	of in-house lighting and expertise.
0:31.0	Phylix is known for their LED color franelles ranging from the smallest Phylix Q3 to the
0:37.4	largest Phylix Q10, and they set the gold standard in the motion picture industry with precise
0:44.2	color science, brightness, and beam shaping.
0:48.0	Phylix recently launched a new LED color lipsoidal called the Phylix G3, which can make razor
0:55.9	sharp cuts.
0:59.8	Today we're speaking with an editor.
1:02.0	Among her many credits are Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, The Walking Dead, The Gold Finch,
1:08.8	and Black Panther Wakanda Forever.
1:11.4	We're pleased to welcome Kelly Dixon.
1:13.6	Kelly, thank you for doing this.
1:15.6	Hey Kelly.
1:16.6	Hey y'all, how's it going?
1:17.9	It's great to see you guys.
1:19.4	I knew.
1:20.4	Yeah, it's been a while.
1:23.2	I'd like to start with our normal question, which is, how did you get to where you are
1:27.5	today?
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