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"Editing
is the stage where a film really begins to come to life and one is
never more aware of the uniqueness of the film medium than in watching
a well-cut scene pulsate with a life of own," he wrote.He and
his editor Dulal Dutta edited the rushes as the shooting progressed.
The final cutting was limited to refining the film.
Much of Ray's editing was done in the camera, as he was very clear
about his intentions before he began shooting. He shot very little
beyond the point where the cut would come. He did not shoot an additional
take just for safety's sake. If the first take was really good, he
did not do a second take. It made his shooting ratio astonishingly
low. This was also dictated by the limited resources available to
him to make films.
He was quite ruthless with his own footage. Dutta, Ray's regular editor,
operated the while Ray stood behind, crying out "Cut". Dulal
Dutta, however, made his contribution in scenes of dialogues. "These
offer endless variations of emphasis, unlimited scope for pointing
up shades of feeling. It is not unusual for an important dialogue
scene to be cut in half a dozen different ways before a final satisfactory
form is achieved", he wrote.
His editing demonstrates an economy, flow and poetry.
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These (scenes with dialogues) offer endless variations of emphasis,
unlimited scope for pointing up shades of feeling. It is not unusual
for an important dialogue scene to be cut in half a dozen different
ways before a final satisfactory form is achieved.
- Satyajit Ray
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