Film Editing
Roles: editor, cut, take, sequence, rhythm, continuity, splice, rushes
The craft of selecting, ordering, and joining filmed material into a coherent whole. As a source domain, editing foregrounds invisible decision-making: the audience sees only the chosen cut, never the alternatives that were discarded. Structurally productive because it separates accumulation (shooting) from selection (editing), encodes the principle that what you leave out defines the work as much as what you keep, and makes the hierarchy of competing values explicit — every cut is a tradeoff between emotion, story logic, visual rhythm, and spatial coherence.